A Few Laughs With the Comic Artists

This Sunday newspaper page collects short comic strips by multiple artists, a common format that helped establish the visual language of sequential art. Each strip uses panels, speech balloons, and exaggerated character expressions to build jokes through sequence rather than single images. The cartoonists here—working in ink with bold linework—were developing techniques that would define comics: clear panel borders guiding reader flow, dialogue integrated into drawings, and recurring characters in absurd situations. These newspaper Sunday pages preceded comic books by decades, serving as the laboratory where artists invented how to tell stories through ordered images.