[dangus]

Does anyone read Funky Winkerbean? I never understood the strips that give you three seconds of dramatic content per day (like Apartment 3-G, FW, etc.)

[Dr. Sivana]

Does anyone read Funky Winkerbean? I never understood the strips that give you three seconds of dramatic content per day (like Apartment 3-G, FW, etc.)

Some are better than others. Mary Worth is extremely painful. One of the artists, Joe Giella, used to be a backbencher on the Superman comic books (he never really improved his technique).

On the other hand, Dick Tracy and Gasoline Alley were pretty good when in the hands of Chester Gould and Dick Moores, respectively.

This format of strip began when comic strips were MUCH larger, and sometimes had as many as six full panels. Some of today's gag strips started out as serials. Blondie and Nancy (as Fritzie Ritz) are two notable examples.