A gag-a-day
comic strip
A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics ter ...
is the style of writing comic cartoons such that every installment of a strip delivers a complete joke or some other kind of artistic statement. It is opposed to story or continuity strips, which rely on the development of a story line across a sequence of the installments. Most
syndicated comics are of this type.
[''The Art of Cartooning & Illustration'', 2014, ]
p.98
/ref> Another term for this distinction is non-serial (gag-a-day) vs. serial strips.
Compared to single-panel cartoons (" gag panels"), gag-a-day comic strips can deliver a better timing for the narrative of a joke.[
The distinction between continuity and gag-a-day strip may be blurred: a continuous story may still be delivered in the gag-a-day format.][ In fact, Lynn Johnston recommends it for story strips, to keep the readership and engage new audience which may be not very familiar with the background of the story.][''Cartoon Success Secrets: A Tribute to 30 Years of Cartoonist Profiles'']
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