Spotlight on newspaper strip layout
The pre WWII years
In the early years Phil Davis drew the daily strips on large Bristol board (22.5 x 28.5 inches - about 572 x 724 mm), where the art for one strip covered about 20.5 x 4.5 inches (520.7 x 114.3 mm).
The daily strip were printed in newspapers with 8 columns a page, and with the Mandrake strip spanning 6 columns. Newspapers were printed in different sizes and the columns therefore had different widths. But, if a column was about 1.83 inches wide the printed Mandrake strip was about 11 x 2.4 inches (280 x 61 mm). - roughly half of the original art by Phil Davis, and a bit larger than the width of a standard modern comic book (10 and 1/8 inches). Keeping the same aspect ratio as the original drawings some newspapers printed the strips spanning 5 columns.
In addition the strips were printed with the title[footnotes 1] was typeset (in all upper case letters) and positioned to the right in the white space area above that strip, with the byline[footnotes 2] on the right. An episode subtitle[footnotes 3] (in upper and lower case) was centered between the title and the byline.
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