History Main / SundayStrip

* Disney's Sunday strips were a different thing from their Daily Strips. Donald Duck's nephews, [[Disney/SaludosAmigos José Carioca]] and [[Disney/TheThreeCaballeros Panchito]] all made their debuts in Sunday Strip form, up to a year before their respective movies debuted in North America.

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* Disney's Sunday strips were a different thing from their Daily Strips. Donald Duck's nephews, [[Disney/SaludosAmigos José Carioca]] and [[Disney/TheThreeCaballeros Panchito]] all made their debuts in Sunday Strip form, up to a year before their respective movies debuted in North America.

* ''ComicStrip/MarkTrail'' uses its Sunday strips for Creator/{{PBS}}-style [[{{Edutainment}} nature lessons]]. (Though it occasionally goes off-topic à la NetworkDecay.)

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* In Britain, ''Fanfic/FredBasset'' has a two-tiered Sunday installment. So does ''Andy Capp'' (this until recently).

* In Britain, ''Fred Basset'' has a two-tiered Sunday installment. So does ''Andy Capp'' (this until recently).

* ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' solves this problem by running a completely different story on Sundays.

* Disney's Sunday strips were a different thing from their Daily Strips. [[Disney/SaludosAmigos José Carioca]] and [[Disney/TheThreeCaballeros Panchito]] made their debuts in Sunday Strip form, up to a year before their respective movies debuted in North America.

* ''[[http://revfitz.com/ Mr. Square]]'' had a Monday strip featured in color in light of this tradition.

* ''[[http://revfitz.com/ Mr. Square]]'' has a Monday strip featured in color in light of this tradition.

Newspaper Sunday strips use a version of EditedForSyndication. The top row and first subsequent panel 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 newspapers could rearrange them to form two rows (with or without the throwaway panels), three rows or four rows of equal breadth. Bill Watterson of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' 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.

Sunday strips are published a day early in Canada due to blue laws in the past that prohibited the publication of Sunday newspapers in most provinces, making the Saturday paper the biggest edition of the week. (These laws were mainly repealed after World War II, but most newspapers still publish the comics on Saturdays - and yes, they are known as "Saturday strips".) Back when newspaper comics were SeriousBusiness, Americans living in border cities would often travel to Canada on Saturdays for the sole purpose of getting the Sunday strips a day before their neighbours.

* ...''ComicStrip/NonSequitur'' being laid out in two different, seamless, unbreakable formats, the traditional two-row strip and with the panels stacked vertically. This is all done by the artist before submitting the finished product to the syndicate.

* ''ComicStrip/SpiderMan'' has a sunday strip that continues the story whilst also being longer and flashier than the other 6 days of strips, however, because some newspapers don't print it, most Monday strips are just a compressed rehash of the Sunday strip, to some readers' aggravation.

* No difference in size, but at one point, ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' was telling one story on weekdays and a different one on Sundays, the Sunday story being a continuation of its earlier {{Crossover}} with ''Accidental Centaurs''.

* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' not only has bigger Sunday strips, but they used to have a newspaper-style throwaway top strip (the author also draws newspaper comics ''Webcomic/OnTheFastrack'' and ''Webcomic/SafeHavens''). More recent Sunday strips are much taller, to allow for publication in Bill Holbrook's local newspaper.

* ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'' had double sized colour Sunday strips. Since the rerun website adds in all the bonus comics, it's impossible to make them consistently run on Sundays. Currently, they run on Fridays.
* ''ComicStrip/SpiderMan'' has a sunday strip that continues the story whilst also being longer and flashier than the other 6 days of strips, however, because some newspapers don't print it, most Monday strips are just a compressed rehash of the Sunday strip, to some readers' aggravation.

* ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' has extra-long Sunday strips. Recently these have become story-free "sketch Sundays", often serving as reminders of things that are important to the strip's mythology, but can't easily be worked into dialogue.

* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' featured a variety of material on Sundays - reader art, reader poems, a {{spinoff}} arc recasting the characters in a [[VictorianLondon Victorian]] pulp serial {{homage}}, and a particularly long FanFic called "A Brief Moment of Culture." (It was about [[JustForPun sentient yoghurt]].)

Newspaper Sunday strips use a version of EditedForSyndication. The top row and first subsequent panel 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 newspapers could rearrange them to form two rows (with or without the throwaway panels), three rows or four rows of equal breadth. Bill Watterson of ''CalvinAndHobbes'' 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.

* In 2006, ''FoxTrot'' ended its weekday strips and went to Sunday strips only. In 1999, it had swapped formats from a half-page to a third-page.
* ''MarkTrail'' uses its Sunday strips for Creator/{{PBS}}-style [[{{Edutainment}} nature lessons]]. (Though it occasionally goes off-topic ''à la'' NetworkDecay.)

* The above case of ''CalvinAndHobbes'', which in addition to being the first strip in decades to be printed in an unbroken format in every paper, also became the reason many papers print some strips down the side of the page, one panel per row: Some papers, not wanting to use up the whole nearly-half-page on ''Calvin and Hobbes'', printed it and a few other strips at a smaller size, with one strip -- usually ''Doonesbury'', which is almost always nine identically-sized panels -- laid out down the side. This led to...

* ''[[BloomCounty Opus]]'' was also offered in an unbreakable format and, unlike ''Calvin and Hobbes'', was initially required to only be printed full-size.

* ''ThePerishers'' briefly had a Sunday edition, but it was only printed in the Scottish edition of the ''Sunday Mirror'', and was a similar size to its weekday version.

* ''{{Narbonic}}'' featured a variety of material on Sundays - reader art, reader poems, a {{spinoff}} arc recasting the characters in a [[VictorianLondon Victorian]] pulp serial {{homage}}, and a particularly long FanFic called "A Brief Moment of Culture." (It was about [[JustForPun sentient yoghurt]].)

* ''WebComic/{{Sinfest}}''
* ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' used these for a while. For the past few years, however, Pete Abrams has greatly relaxed the strip's format; nowadays strips can vary from a single black-and-white panel to [[InfiniteCanvas two pages of full-colored, extra-size panels]], and anything inbetween.

* ''SquidRow'' does this, even though the daily strips are also in full color.

* ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'' started out like this, and followed the format for exactly 12 weeks. The next week onwards it moved on to a different format, and eventually abandoned the daily schedule as well.
* ''WebComic/{{Stairwell}}'' emulates a Sunday style strip every weekend that is totally unrelated to any story lines that might be going on during the weekly strips.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''

* ''DominicDeegan: Oracle for Hire''
** It used to be that these were normal strips, just colored. Nowadays, they've moved into once-a-week, single-panel splash pages, often without dialogue.
* ''ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' has extra-long Sunday strips. Recently these have become story-free "sketch Sundays", often serving as reminders of things that are important to the strip's mythology, but can't easily be worked into dialogue.
* No difference in size, but at one point, ''TheWotch'' was telling one story on weekdays and a different one on Sundays, the Sunday story being a continuation of its earlier {{Crossover}} with ''Accidental Centaurs''.
* In late November 2008, ''LeastICouldDo'' recently added a Sunday update that is large format, a different art style and all flashback.

* ''KevinAndKell'' not only has bigger Sunday strips, but they used to have a newspaper-style throwaway top strip (the author also draws newspaper comics ''OnTheFastrack'' and ''SafeHavens''). More recent Sunday strips are much taller, to allow for publication in Bill Holbrook's local newspaper.

* ''[[InternationalComicContinuity Nuparurocks' Comics]]'' has done this since its switch to a daily format in late 2008/early 2009.

* Disney's Sunday strips were an entirely different thing from their Daily Strips. [[SaludosAmigos José Carioca]] and [[TheThreeCaballeros Panchito]] made their debuts in Sunday Strip form, up to a year before their respective movies debuted in North America.

* ''ComicStrip/SlylockFox'' turns its Sunday strips into entire miniature activity pages, with a Slylock mystery, a six-differences puzzle, a how-to-draw, and a featured drawing, with the throwaway panels being used for a gag involving two kids.

* ''WebComic/{{Precocious}}''

Newspaper Sunday strips use a version of EditedForSyndication. The top row and first subsequent panel 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 newspapers could rearrange them to form two, three or four rows of equal breadth. Bill Watterson of ''CalvinAndHobbes'' 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 EditedForSyndication. The top row and first subsequent panel 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 newspapers could rearrange them to form two, three or four rows of equal width. Bill Watterson of ''CalvinAndHobbes'' 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 EditedForSyndication. The top row and first subsequent panel 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 newspapers could rearrange them to form two, three or four rows of equal length. Bill Watterson of ''CalvinAndHobbes'' 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 EditedForSyndication. 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 ''CalvinAndHobbes'' 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.

* ''WebComic/{{Stairwell}}'' emulates a Sunday style strip that is totally unrelated to any story lines that might be going on during the daily strips.

* ''MarkTrail'' uses its Sunday strips for Creator/{{PBS}}-style [[{{Edutainment}} nature lessons.]] (Though it occasionally goes off-topic ''a la'' NetworkDecay.)

* ''[[BloomCounty Opus]]'' was also offered in an unbreakable format, and, unlike ''Calvin and Hobbes'', was initially required to only be printed full-size.

* ''[[http://squidrowcomics.com/ Squid Row]]''

* ''[[http://revfitz.com Mr. Square]]'' Has a Monday strip featured in color in light of this tradition.

* ''WebComic/{{Stairwell}}'' On Sundays, Stairwell emulates a Sunday style strip that is totally unrelated to any story lines that might be going on during the daily strips.