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a joke with a beginning, middle, and punchline, drawn small enough to fit in your newspaper's armpit.
means a sequence of drawn panels telling a brief story or gag, usually recurring with the same characters.
from traces to 19th-century broadsheets like the yellow kid (1895), born when newspapers realized pictures sold more papers than prose ever could.
first color stripthe yellow kid wore a printed yellow nightshirt, 1896
sunday vs dailysunday strips got color, weekdays stayed black and white
peanuts runcharles schulz drew 17,897 strips over 50 years
calvin and hobbeswatterson refused all merchandising, ever
for instance
peanuts — charlie brown never once kicked that football, 1950-2000
calvin and hobbes — bill watterson ended it at its peak in 1995
garfield — jim davis built a lasagna empire since 1978
doonesbury — garry trudeau won a pulitzer for satire, 1975