Abie the Agent

This Sunday strip follows Abie, a fast-talking street hustler, through six panels of automotive mishap. The narrative arc is classic newspaper comic construction: Abie receives instructions to deliver a car, misunderstands the address, and arrives at the wrong building—a slapstick premise resolved through sequential art. The strip uses speech balloons, distinct panel borders, and a recurring protagonist to establish continuity across episodes. Published during the formative years of newspaper comics, *Abie the Agent* exemplifies how the Sunday pages functioned as laboratories for visual storytelling, developing the panel-based grammar and character-driven humor that would become foundational to the comic book medium.