Spotlight on Sunday strip layout

First years

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The early Mandrake Sunday strips filled an entire newspaper page. Phil Davis layout his first Sunday story with 4 strips a page before he started experimenting with different variants of layout. The various pages could have 2, 3 or 4 strips and some panels could span more than one row.

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In the first Sunday story Phil Davis also experimented with the logo for the pages.

The first Sunday page logo and variants

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The second Sunday page logo and variants

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The third Sunday page logo and variants

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Because of paper shortages during World War II the size of Sunday strips began to shrink.

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After the war, strips continued to get smaller and smaller, to save the expense of printing so many color pages.

When Sunday strips began to appear in more than one format, it became necessary for the cartoonist to follow a standardized strip layout, which provides newspapers with the greatest flexibility in determining how to print a strip.

Sunday strip layout 4

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  designed to fill full a newspaper page

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  designed to fill half a newspaper page

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  designed to fill a third of a newspaper page

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  designed to fill a quarter of a newspaper page