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Newspaper comic strips are comic strips that
are first published in newspapers, The first newspaper
comic strips appeared in America in the early years of the
twentieth century.
the artform, mixing words and
pictures, evolved gradually, and there are many examples of
proto-comic strips. Newspaper comic strips are divided into
daily strips and Sunday strips. A daily strip is a newspaper
comic strip that appears in newspapers Monday through Saturday,
as contrasted with a Sunday strip which appears on Sunday. Daily
strips are usually in black and white, though a few newspapers,
beginning in the later part of the twentieth century, published
them in color. Most newspaper comic strips are
syndicated; that is, a
syndicate hires people to write and draw the strip, and then
distributes the strip to many newspapers for a fee. A few
newspaper strips are exclusive to one newspaper. |
