Johnny Mouse

This four-panel strip follows Johnny Mouse through a series of escalating physical gags. In the first panel, Johnny discovers a stick of dynamite and cheerfully prepares to open it. The second shows the explosive result of his curiosity. By the third panel, a white mouse character appears, startled by the commotion. The final panel depicts the two mice in mid-action, with Johnny apparently launched into the air. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, simple line drawings, and slapstick humor. Johnny Mouse exemplifies the recurring animal characters that populated Sunday pages and dailies of the 1910s, when newspaper comics established the foundational grammar of the medium—panel borders, word-picture integration, and sight gags—that would define sequential art for generations to come.