Absentminded Augie

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows Augie, a scatterbrained character who forgets he has moved to a new address. The six-panel sequence uses the visual vocabulary that newspaper comics were establishing: sequential panels advancing a single narrative gag, speech balloons anchoring dialogue to characters, and exaggerated body language conveying action and emotion. The strip's structure—setup, complications, climax—became standard in Sunday funnies. By 1905, such strips appeared alongside news on the color pages of metropolitan papers, reaching millions of readers. These newspaper comics pioneered the panel format and character continuity that would define the medium when comic books emerged as collections of reprinted strips in the 1930s.