Angelic Angelina

This Sunday comic strip follows a mischievous child character through six sequential panels, each advancing a single narrative. A man attempts to teach the girl calisthenics and proper behavior, but she repeatedly outsmarts him through physical comedy and wordplay. The strip employs the visual grammar that defined early comics: bordered panels, speech balloons, exaggerated proportions, and expressive linework. Such Sunday pages in the New York Herald and competing papers established the formal vocabulary of sequential storytelling that would become the foundation of the comic book medium.