Alphonse and Gaston See Their Friend Leon Off

This six-panel Sunday strip follows two rotund gentlemen as they bid farewell to their traveling friend Leon at a train station. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels: initial farewells, repeated emotional exchanges, Leon's departure by carriage, and final melancholy reflections from Alphonse and Gaston. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics—bordered panels, speech balloons for dialogue, and recurring characters whose exaggerated physical comedy drives the humor. The artist's fine crosshatching and careful composition reflect the technical standards of newspaper illustration circa 1900–1910, when Sunday comics pages were dominant outlets for sequential storytelling and character development. Such strips established the formal vocabulary—panel arrangement, pacing, emotional beats—that would structure comic books for generations.