Go, Look: Contrasting Strip Styles

It's not exactly the comics page from 1939 and the heyday of Caniff, Crane and Gray, but I thought this entry at the Washington Post's Comic Riffs highlights a few examples of strips that are either outright well-drawn or have a reasonably potent design verve fueling their overall look. In other words, if you put those four strips on top of one another 1-2-3-4, it would have enough visual variety to make for a pleasant overall reading experience. One rarely-discussed casualty of the smaller size of newspaper strips is how so many features that offer up variations on the post-1950s gag-cartoon style gives the comics page a relentless sameness for much of its space that can make the comics page in an average paper look as dull as a page of solid text.
 
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