Why are there no Sunday comics early and late in the archives?
Looking back in the archives, you’ll notice that between September 2000 and October 2001, we only ran one Sunday strip per month. Starting November 4, 2001, we began running full-color Sunday strips every week. The reason for the slow adoption of Sundays was primarily an issue of time, because they take so much extra effort beyond what is required for the gray scale strips. Another factor was computing power, because the larger strips combined with a higher color depth and the high resolution needed for eventual printing requires some serious processor and memory crunching. But we slowly eased them into the schedule, and we were pleased that they didn’t slowed us down much. In Year Nine, I found myself much more pressed for time to produce the comic, as I now had a son to help take care of. So starting with the beginning of that year, I ditched the color strips entirely to streamline the production process. Hopefully, this won’t be a permanent situation. We used to maintain a “Sunday C
