Editing Comic strip (section)

==Sunday comics==
{{Main|Sunday comics}}
[[File:Squirrelcage1337.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.85|[[Gene Ahern]]'s ''The Squirrel Cage'' (January 3, 1937), an example of a [[topper (comic strip)|topper]] strip which is better remembered than the strip it accompanied, Ahern's ''[[Room and Board (comic strip)|Room and Board]]''.]]
[[File:Newadvflossy12641.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|Russell Patterson and Carolyn Wells' ''New Adventures of Flossy Frills'' (January 26, 1941), an example of comic strips on [[Sunday magazine]]s.]]
Sunday newspapers traditionally included a special color section. Early Sunday strips (known colloquially as "the funny pages/papers", shortened to "the funnies"), such as ''[[Thimble Theatre]]'' and ''[[Little Orphan Annie]]'', filled an entire newspaper page, a format known to collectors as [[comic strip formats|full page]]. Sunday pages during the 1930s and into the 1940s often carried a secondary strip by the same artist as the main strip. No matter whether it appeared above or below a main strip, the extra strip was known as the [[topper (comic strip)|topper]], such as ''The Squirrel Cage'' which ran along with ''[[Room and Board (comic strip)|Room and Board]]'', both drawn by [[Gene Ahern]].

During the 1930s, the original art for a Sunday strip was usually drawn quite large. For example, in 1930, [[Russ Westover]] drew his ''[[Tillie the Toiler]]'' Sunday page at a size of 17" × 37".<ref>{{cite web| url = http://comicstripfan.com/newspaper/t/tilliethetoiler.htm| title = ComicStripFan}}</ref> In 1937, the cartoonist [[Dudley Fisher]] launched the innovative ''[[Right Around Home]]'', drawn as a huge single panel filling an entire Sunday page.

Full-page strips were eventually replaced by strips half that size. Strips such as ''[[The Phantom]]'' and ''[[Terry and the Pirates (comic strip)|Terry and the Pirates]]'' began appearing in a format of two strips to a page in full-size newspapers, such as the ''[[New Orleans Times Picayune]]'', or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''. When Sunday strips began to appear in more than one format, it became necessary for the cartoonist to allow for rearranged, cropped or dropped panels. During [[World War II]], because of paper shortages, the size of Sunday strips began to shrink. After the war, strips continued to get smaller and smaller because of increased paper and printing costs. The last full-page comic strip was the ''[[Prince Valiant]]'' strip for 11 April 1971.

Comic strips have also been published in Sunday newspaper magazines. [[Russell Patterson]] and Carolyn Wells' ''New Adventures of Flossy Frills'' was a continuing strip series seen on Sunday magazine covers. Beginning January 26, 1941, it ran on the front covers of Hearst's ''[[The American Weekly|American Weekly]]'' newspaper magazine supplement, continuing until March 30 of that year. Between 1939 and 1943, four different stories featuring Flossy appeared on ''American Weekly'' covers.

Sunday comics sections employed offset color printing with multiple print runs imitating a wide range of colors. Printing plates were created with four or more colors—traditionally, the [[CMYK color model]]: cyan, magenta, yellow and "K" for black. With a screen of tiny dots on each printing plate, the dots allowed an image to be printed in a [[halftone]] that appears to the eye in different gradations. The semi-opaque property of [[ink]] allows halftone dots of different colors to create an optical effect of full-color imagery.<ref name="campbell">Campbell, Alastair. ''The Designer's Lexicon''. Chronicle, San Francisco: Chronicle, 2000.</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/silvery/4168853773/| title = "Popeye Google Doodle Logo"| date = 8 December 2009}}</ref>