Sunday strip
Noun
Meaning
Sunday strip (plural Sunday strips)
A comic strip regularly published in a newspaper (or one of its supplements) on Sundays.
Examples
Changing the format of the Sunday strip Watterson was critical of the prevailing format for the Sunday comic strip that was in place when he began drawing (and still is, to varying degrees).
During the extended peak of the strip, the workload grew to include advertising, merchandising, promotional work, public service comics and other specialty work—in addition to the regular six dailies and one Sunday strip per week.
Opus won that same privilege years after Calvin and Hobbes ended, while Wiley Miller circumvented further downsizings by making his Non Sequitur Sunday strip available only in an extremely vertical (near-page-long) arrangement.
During the 1930s, the original art for a Sunday strip was usually drawn quite large.
For all the yelling and screaming by outraged editors, I remain convinced that the larger Sunday strip gave newspapers a better product and made the comics section more fun for readers.
Schulz continued the strip until his retirement resulting from failing health; he died the day before the final Sunday strip was published.