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‹ ComicLab Ep 435 — Reclaiming Our Power

The four-panel comic strip is dead! Long live the four-panel comic strip!

CC BY 2.0 Nico Paix https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerosolhalos/

Since the very beginning, the newspaper comic strip followed a simple, practical rule: three to four panels arranged in a horizontal row. That format wasn’t an artistic preference so much as a logistical necessity. Newspapers were designed in columns, and comics had to fit neatly into that grid. A long, horizontal strip made perfect sense when your canvas was a broadsheet page spread across a kitchen table.

But that world is gone.

Today, your reader isn’t holding newsprint. They’re holding a phone.

And that changes everything.

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by Brad Guigar on April 20, 2026
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