Behave Yourself!

A Sunday newspaper strip featuring Floradora and the Four Horsemen, characters who navigate domestic mishaps and social etiquette. The comic employs the visual conventions established in early comics: multiple panels arranged for narrative flow, speech balloons containing dialogue and exposition, and recurring character types. The strip's humor derives from visual gags—a figure dangling from a boat, characters receiving instruction in proper behavior—and situational comedy playing on middle-class social anxiety. By the 1920s, such strips appeared regularly in newspapers' color Sunday editions, reaching mass audiences and establishing comics as a distinct medium with its own grammar of sequential panels, timing, and character development.