A Few Laughs with the Comic Artists

This Sunday newspaper page collects comic strips by multiple artists, a common format in early-1900s papers. The strips feature slapstick gags with small characters in exaggerated situations—magical transformations, collisions, and sight-based humor that required no continuity or plot. Speech balloons carry brief dialogue; panels arranged in vertical and horizontal sequences guide the reader's eye. These newspaper comics, published weekly and daily, established the visual vocabulary of sequential art: panel borders, word balloons, expressive line work, and recurring character types. By 1903, comic strips had become essential newspaper content, driving circulation and directly preceding the comic book format that would emerge two decades later.