Ah, okay.
IME available space was always a concern for cartoonists. The level of detail here seems like it wouldn’t register well in a typical ~2.5" x 2.5" space on a funnies page, but maybe some papers were giving Bushmiller more space to work with. That could also happen with popular cartoonists.
It’s weird because this day was a Monday. And it doesn’t seem big enough for a Sunday.
They did different sizes over the years, but I thought by the 40s they’d settled ones basically the modern size for the weekdays
Edit: found some other weekday ones from the early 1940s and they were also this size, so I guess that’s just how it was.
Ah, okay.
IME available space was always a concern for cartoonists. The level of detail here seems like it wouldn’t register well in a typical ~2.5" x 2.5" space on a funnies page, but maybe some papers were giving Bushmiller more space to work with. That could also happen with popular cartoonists.
I hear that Watterson had some thoughts on the matter.
Also McCay.
Oh…?