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Just a small memory - I never thought Nancy was all that funny, but she wasn’t in our newspaper comics so it was always a treat to read, like maybe at the dentist’s office in Highlights, or at another kid’s house where they took a different paper.
I actually lol’ed
I guess this would be a Sunday strip, what with the large format?
It’s weird because this day was a Monday. And it doesn’t seem big enough for a Sunday.
They did different sizes over the years, but I thought by the 40s they’d settled ones basically the modern size for the weekdays
Edit: found some other weekday ones from the early 1940s and they were also this size, so I guess that’s just how it was.
Ah, okay.
IME available space was always a concern for cartoonists. The level of detail here seems like it wouldn’t register well in a typical ~2.5" x 2.5" space on a funnies page, but maybe some papers were giving Bushmiller more space to work with. That could also happen with popular cartoonists.I hear that Watterson had some thoughts on the matter.
Also McCay.
Oh…?
