Mrs. Katzenjammer's Thanksgiving Dinner

This eight-panel Sunday page follows the domestic chaos of the Katzenjammer Kids household during a holiday meal. The strip's visual language—sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—was foundational to comic art. The narrative escalates from dinner table conversation through increasingly physical comedy, with slapstick violence rendered across expanding compositions. The dense linework and caricatured figures reflect the newspaper comic's origins in vaudeville and illustrated humor. Sunday pages like this one established the formal vocabulary that would define the medium: panel borders directing eye movement, overlapping dialogue revealing character voices, and visual gags dependent on sequential reading rather than single-image punchlines.