Mickey as a Milliner

This comic strip follows Mickey through three panels as he attempts hat-making. The first panel shows Mickey presenting his creation to a customer, who questions the nature of his work. In the middle panels, young girls model and admire the finished hats. The final panel depicts chaos as the hats apparently fail, sending the children into consternation while Mickey watches the disaster unfold. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a gag, speech balloons revealing character voice, and recurring figures. Published in the Sunday funnies, such strips were instrumental in establishing the formal grammar of comic narrative that would define the medium for decades.