And Her Name Was Maud

This Sunday comic strip follows the misadventures of Maud, a recalcitrant mule whose kicks and antics generate slapstick comedy across six panels. The narrative moves from diagnosis—a physician pronounces Maud ill—through escalating chaos: the animal's violent resistance to treatment, the arrival of a wheelbarrow, and ultimately a collision that lands her caretaker in the cart. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that newspaper comics were rapidly standardizing: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive character poses, and motion lines conveying action. By the early 1900s, animal characters populated the Sunday supplements, where artists explored humor through exaggeration and physical gag sequences rather than purely verbal wit.