What Aubrey Did to the Paper Hanger

This six-panel Sunday strip follows a mischievous child named Aubrey through escalating domestic chaos. A paper hanger arrives to hang wallpaper; Aubrey systematically sabotages the job, ultimately trapping the worker under a collapsing table. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and physical comedy—hallmarks of early newspaper comic strips. By the turn of the twentieth century, the Sunday funnies had become a major circulation driver for newspapers, establishing the visual vocabulary of comics: panel borders, dialogue balloons, and slapstick gags played for working-class audiences. Such strips pioneered techniques that would define the medium for decades.