The height of the 3rd panel on my 19″ monitor is 7.4 cm. If your monitor has the same or a similar physical resolution, you can have a look at this scaled version in which the 3rd panel is exactly 4.8 cm high.

Caption: A short history of newspaper comic strips Caption: 7.6 cm x 24.2 cm

Original full-page format at

the beginning of the last century Caption: 5.8 cm x 18.4 cm

Commonly used format of

daily strips in the last

century until the 1990’s Caption: 4.8 cm x 15.2 cm

Commonly used format

of daily strips today Sandra: The walls are getting closer!

The walls are getting closer! Woo: I’m scared.

I’m scared. Caption: 3.8 cm x 12.1 cm

Format of a daily

strip printed in

The Arizona Republic