regardless of the topic, everything related to the topic (background and phrases) is shown in a single frame in the daily strips. "frank and ernest" has a tradition of breaking new ground. it was the first strip to use digital coloring for its sunday strips and the first strip in over 1,000 newspapers to list the creator's email address. the website broke a lot of ground in 1997: first interactive comics based on strips published in the newspaper, first keyword searchable archive for a comic strip and the first 3-d characters.