's
Little Sammy Sneeze strip. There are two major styles used in newspaper comics, single panels and strips. Single panels are usually not broken up (though this is not always the case), and thus lack continuity. Comics such as
Dennis the Menace,
The Far Side, and
The Family Circus are all single panels. Strips, on the other hand, are generally longer and shaped into a rectangle. Examples of strips include
Calvin and Hobbes,
Peanuts, and
Garfield.
J. R. Williams' long-run
Out Our Way continued as a daily panel even after it expanded into a Sunday strip,
Out Our Way with the Willets.
Jimmy Hatlo's ''
They'll Do It Every Time'' was often displayed in a two-panel format with the first panel showing some deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior and the second panel revealing the truth of the situation. Initially, a newspaper page included only a single daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page. By the 1920s, many newspapers had a comics page on which many strips were collected together. Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller; until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip. NEA Syndicate experimented briefly with a two-tier daily strip,
Star Hawks, but after a few years,
Star Hawks dropped down to a single tier. In
Flanders,
Belgium, the two-tier strip is the standard publication style of most daily strips like
Spike and Suzy and
Nero. They appear Monday through Saturday; until 2003 there were no Sunday papers in Flanders. In the last decades, they have been switched from black-and-white to color. ==Usage==