Daily strips
Daily strips are newspaper comic strips that appear in newspapers Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with Sunday strips which appear on Sunday. Daily strips are usually in black and white, though a few newspapers, beginning in the later part of the Twentieth Century published them in color. The major formats are strips -- wider than they are tall -- and panels -- taller than they are wide. Strips usually, but not always, are broken up into several smaller panels, with continuity from panel to panel. Panels usually, but not always, are not broken up, and lack continuitity. The daily Peanuts is a strip, the daily Dennis the Menace is a panel.
Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches in height. At first, one newspaper page only included one daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page. By the nineteen-twenties, many newspapers had a comics page on which many strips were collected. Over the years, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until today four standard daily strips could fit in the 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.