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A daily strip is a newspaper comic strip format, appearing on weekdays, Monday through Saturday, as contrasted with a Sunday strip, which typically only appears on Sundays. Bud Fisher's ''Mutt and Jeff'' is commonly regarded as the first daily comic strip, launched November 15, 1907 (under its initial title, ''A. Mutt'') on the sports pages of the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. The featured character had previously appeared in sports cartoons by Fisher but was unnamed. Fisher had approached his editor, John P. Young, about doing a regular strip as early as 1905 but was turned down. According to Fisher, Young told him, "It would take up too much room, and readers are used to reading down the page, and not horizontally."〔''The Comics Journal'' #289, April 2008, p.175.〕 Other cartoonists followed the trend set by Fisher, as noted by comic strip historian R. C. Harvey: :The strip's regular appearance and its continued popularity inspired imitation, thus establishing the daily "strip" form for a certain kind of newspaper cartoon. Until ''Mutt and Jeff'' set the fashion, newspaper cartoons usually reached readers in one of two forms: on Sunday, in colored pages of tiered panels in sequence (some like Winsor McCay's ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'', intended chiefly for children to read): on weekdays, collections of comic drawings grouped almost haphazardly within the ruled border of a large single-frame panel (directed mostly to adult readers)... Then on that November day in 1907, Fisher made history by spreading his comic drawings in sequence across the width of the sports page. And when his editor consented to this departure from the usual practice, the daily comic strip format was on its way to becoming a fixture in daily newspapers."〔(Heer, Jeet and Worcester, Kent, editors.''A Comics Studies Reader''. Harvey, Robert C. "How Comics Came to Be". University Press of Mississippi, 2009. )〕 In the early 1900s, William Randolph Hearst's weekday morning and afternoon papers around the country featured scattered black-and-white comic strips, and on January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation's first full daily comics page in his ''Evening Journal''. The reading of newspaper comics each day was a major entertainment activity during the first half of the 20th century. A ''Fortune'' poll in 1937 ranked the ten leading strips in popularity (with number one as the most popular): # ''Little Orphan Annie'' # ''Popeye'' # ''Dick Tracy'' # ''Bringing Up Father'' # ''The Gumps'' # ''Blondie'' # ''Moon Mullins'' # ''Joe Palooka'' # ''Li'l Abner'' # ''Tillie the Toiler''〔(Young, William H. and Nancy K. ''The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia'', Greenwood, 2007. )〕 ==Formats and color== The two conventional formats for daily newspaper comics are strips and single gag panels. The strips are usually displayed horizontally, wider than they are tall. Strips are usually, but not always, are broken up into several smaller panels with continuity from panel to panel. Single panels are square, circular or taller than they are wide. One of the leading single gag panels for decades, ''Grin and Bear It'', was created in 1932 by George Lichty and syndicated by Field Enterprises. Throughout the 20th century, daily newspaper strips were usually presented in black and white and Sunday strips in color, but a few newspapers have published daily strips in color, and some newspapers, such as ''Grit'', have published Sunday strips in black and white. On the web, daily newspaper strips are usually in color, and conversely, some webcomics, such as ''Joyce and Walky'', have been created in black and white.〔(''Joyce and Walky'' )〕 Traditionally, balloons and captions were hand-lettered with all upper case letters. However, there are exceptions such as a few strips which have typeset dialog such as ''Barnaby''. Upper and lower case lettering is used in ''Gasoline Alley''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daily comic strip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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