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| rdfs:comment | - [[wikipedia:File:Littlenemo41710.jpg|right|thumb|Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland (April 17, 1910), an example of full-page Sunday strips.|]] Sunday comics is the commonly accepted term for the full-color comic strip section carried in most American newspapers. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, the funny papers or simply the funnies. In Canada, they are known as the weekend comics, as they are published there on Saturdays (Most Canadian papers are not published on Sundays).
- In Calvin and Hobbes, Sunday comics often feature more outlandish scenarios than the weekday strips, and are less reliant on punchlines and gags than the expression of artistic license. For instance, longer poems are mostly featured in Sunday strips, and some Sundays are completely dialogue-free. This is consistent with Bill Watterson's insistence that syndicated comics should be treated as a serious art form as opposed to vapid, pandering commercial hackwork.
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| Caption | - Sunday comic strip panel layout, designed to fill a quarter of a newspaper page.
- Sunday comic strip panel layout, designed to fill half a newspaper page.
- Sunday comic strip panel layout, designed to fill a third of a newspaper page. Note that the top two panels are omitted entirely.
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| Alt | - Sunday comic strip panel layout, designed to fill a quarter of a newspaper page.
- Sunday comic strip panel layout, designed to fill half a newspaper page.
- Sunday comic strip panel layout, designed to fill a third of a newspaper page.
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| Image | - Sunday Comic Strip Layout Half Page.png
- Sunday Comic Strip Layout Quarter Page.png
- Sunday Comic Strip Layout Third Page.png
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| abstract | - [[wikipedia:File:Littlenemo41710.jpg|right|thumb|Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland (April 17, 1910), an example of full-page Sunday strips.|]] Sunday comics is the commonly accepted term for the full-color comic strip section carried in most American newspapers. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, the funny papers or simply the funnies. In Canada, they are known as the weekend comics, as they are published there on Saturdays (Most Canadian papers are not published on Sundays). The first US newspaper comic strips appeared in the late 19th century, closely allied with the invention of the color press. Jimmy Swinnerton's The Little Bears introduced sequential art and recurring characters in William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. In America, the popularity of comic strips sprang from the newspaper war between Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.
- In Calvin and Hobbes, Sunday comics often feature more outlandish scenarios than the weekday strips, and are less reliant on punchlines and gags than the expression of artistic license. For instance, longer poems are mostly featured in Sunday strips, and some Sundays are completely dialogue-free. This is consistent with Bill Watterson's insistence that syndicated comics should be treated as a serious art form as opposed to vapid, pandering commercial hackwork. Only three Sunday strips in the entire comic's run are part of any ongoing story arcs at the time. This is because the Sunday Strips require a longer lead time than the dailies to allow for color, and to include a Sunday strip in a story, the entire story must be written that far in advance. In the strip's later years, particularly starting with the first sabbatical and subsequent change in format, Sunday comics upstaged story arcs somewhat. As the latter dwindled in frequency, the focus on Sunday strips became narrowe: for instance, Spaceman Spiff's appearances were relegated almost exclusively to the larger Sunday format from 1991 onward. Moreover, the comparatively stiff, restrictive structure of the earlier Sunday strips was dropped in order to make way for more unorthodox layouts.
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