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A special format of [[Newspaper Comics]]. Instead of the three to five square panels afforded to the weekday episodes of a newspaper comic, the gaudy Sunday editions of newspapers often feature luxurious color episodes taking up half a page each. These larger comics allow the cartoonist to engage in longer, more elaborate gags than are possible in a typical weekday strip.
A special format of [[Newspaper Comics]]. Instead of the three to five square panels afforded to the weekday episodes of a newspaper comic, the gaudy Sunday editions of newspapers often feature luxurious color episodes taking up half a page each. These larger comics allow the cartoonist to engage in longer, more elaborate gags than are possible in a typical weekday strip.


Sunday Strips, being quite clearly differentiated from their weekday counterparts, are often used for [[Canon Dis Continuity|non-Canon]] stories, or even [[Alternate Continuity|separate]] [[Story Arc|Story Arcs]] altogether. This is sometimes done because not all newspapers that carry the weekday strip carry its Sunday counterpart. It is also sometimes done because the artist produces the weekday and Sunday strips on separate schedules (since the Sunday ones need more lead time to set up for printing). More often, though, they simply continue the story being told in the weekday strips, or lack thereof.
Sunday Strips, being quite clearly differentiated from their weekday counterparts, are often used for [[Canon Discontinuity|non-Canon]] stories, or even [[Alternate Continuity|separate]] [[Story Arc|Story Arcs]] altogether. This is sometimes done because not all newspapers that carry the weekday strip carry its Sunday counterpart. It is also sometimes done because the artist produces the weekday and Sunday strips on separate schedules (since the Sunday ones need more lead time to set up for printing). More often, though, they simply continue the story being told in the weekday strips, or lack thereof.


Newspaper Sunday strips use a version of [[Edited for Syndication]]. The top row of a strip may be discarded by papers that want to fit more strips onto a page, and therefore has to contain a literal throwaway gag which is usually unrelated to the rest of the strip, or at least the rest of the strip still makes sense if it's removed. The panels are also expected to fit into certain formats so they could be rearranged to accommodate different newspapers' layouts and/or take up even less space still. Bill Watterson of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' protested against this practice and demanded (and won) the right to produce a Sunday strip with a fixed layout and no throwaway panels, but this was still an exception to the rule; it helped Watterson's case that he was, even by that point, looked upon by many as the benchmark for pushing the bounds of what a newspaper comic strip was capable of.
Newspaper Sunday strips use a version of [[Edited for Syndication]]. The top row of a strip may be discarded by papers that want to fit more strips onto a page, and therefore has to contain a literal throwaway gag which is usually unrelated to the rest of the strip, or at least the rest of the strip still makes sense if it's removed. The panels are also expected to fit into certain formats so they could be rearranged to accommodate different newspapers' layouts and/or take up even less space still. Bill Watterson of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' protested against this practice and demanded (and won) the right to produce a Sunday strip with a fixed layout and no throwaway panels, but this was still an exception to the rule; it helped Watterson's case that he was, even by that point, looked upon by many as the benchmark for pushing the bounds of what a newspaper comic strip was capable of.
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