Presuming that you see some newspaper strips , whether in a newspaper , online , or both ( How , BTW ?? ) --- do you see them in black and white or color ?
  Including the Archie strip , which I don't regularly see .
  Now , let me get into some " possibly overly dry " expounding here .
  Most daily newspaper strips are published in color on the Web , though I believe the majority of newspapers still publish them in B&W .
( Here in the SF Bay Area , there appears to be one newspaper , the Oakland Tribune , which runs their strips in color . )
  I think , in a sense , this leads to a little bit of the worst of both worlds - because it means that newspaper strips have to , reasonably , " look good " in eith B&W or color . For one thing , I believe that's the reason why so many newspaper strips nowadays have so many panels of fully detailed figures against a completely blank background - It adapts to either b&w or color relatively easily .
  In some cases , the adaptation of b&w strips to color have led to some fairly ridiculous color versions - I remember seeing a Doonesbury daily with the background against which a character stood being pink with green polka dots , or Non Sequiter with the bit of color put in the word balloon only !!!!!!!!!
  However , too , I believe making the strips " multi-platform friendly "...leads to a certain graphic dullness .
  Also , frankly , I DO like good b&w comic art !!!!!!!!! SIGH :-( However , once that corner is turned , there is rarely any going back on such...Some years back , the King Features Web site was free , and the balance between b&w and color strips , and how it played out as I saw them there , could serve as an additional illustration to this . Not now , however...
  Also , recently , in Comics.Com where I follow it , Pearls Before Swine went from color , to b&w , to color again...I suppose that it may be being prepared/drawn with color in mind niw , which illustrates what I said...
( I don't , right now , buy a newspaper daiily , I have a grudge against the San Francisco Chronicle and try not to buy them...They run their dailes in b&w , still pretty good size...They've dealt with the recession by shrinking the Sundays still further , however , shrinking them even more . )

...What's your local paper up there in Canada ?

On the official Archie Comics site, the newspaper strips archive has the dailies in b&w and the Sundays in color.

I don't know if I've ever seen a daily in color.

Anyway, are the strips colored by the artist, or do individual newspapers add color themselves?

There is a magazine out there (I think) that prints comic strips each month - it was, or is, called "Comics Revue"  - I'm going to look it up and see if it's still out there and if it prints Archie.  That would be ideal.

HEY!  BUZZ-BUZZ --- brain wave!

Why doesn't Archie print a monthly comics called "Archie's Day"?   It could reprint all the months strips and Sundays in a comic book format.  It would be a total return to "old school" comics - this is where comics originally came from!

Let's see:
20 days
4 sundays

Reformat each day to fit a page (BIG panels) and the Sundays - you have a 24-page comic.

There is a magazine out there (I think) that prints comic strips each month - it was, or is, called "Comics Revue"  - I'm going to look it up and see if it's still out there and if it prints Archie.  That would be ideal.

HEY!  BUZZ-BUZZ --- brain wave!

Why doesn't Archie print a monthly comics called "Archie's Day"?   It could reprint all the months strips and Sundays in a comic book format.  It would be a total return to "old school" comics - this is where comics originally came from!

Let's see:
20 days
4 sundays

Reformat each day to fit a page (BIG panels) and the Sundays - you have a 24-page comic.

...I get " Comics Revue " irregularly and it's almost entirely continuity/adventure strips , and , ENTIRELY vintage ones , contemporary Archie reprints would not , I am sure , be seen as fitting .
  Actually , that reminds me , I saw a comment , in passing , at Comics  Journal's board , about IDW book reprints of vintage Archie newspaper strips - presumably Montana's - I don't seem to have seen anything about it here !!!!!?!!!?!

Actually , that reminds me , I saw a comment , in passing , at Comics  Journal's board , about IDW book reprints of vintage Archie newspaper strips - presumably Montana's - I don't seem to have seen anything about it here !!!!!?!!!?!

There are actually two threads about it here - one in News and New Releases and one in (I believe) All About Archie.

So does the L.A. Times, had colored and formerly B&W dailies and still on sundays. The other newspapers in Cal. I can name of is the Sacramento Bee, Bakersfield Californian, Orange County register, San Diego Union and San Jose Mercury News done the same.  I grew up reading Calvin and Hobbes, and the attempts by Bill Waterson to bring back the half to one-page format comic strip in the early 90s before he retired. The first pages normally had Peanuts and Garfield. Classic Peanuts remains reprinted as repeats.