Ain't Men the Wretches?

This four-panel comic strip follows a domestic dispute between Mr. and Mrs. Snooks. Mrs. Snooks complains of boredom at home and threatens to enliven things by singing popular songs. Mr. Snooks agrees to take a walk rather than endure her performance. The final panel shows "the boys at the club" welcoming him with a card game. The strip employs the visual conventions becoming standard in newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated facial expressions, and a recurring married couple as protagonists. The humor derives from recognizable domestic situations and gender roles, themes that dominated the Sunday newspaper pages where such strips first flourished as a distinct art form.