Holidays with Mother Goose

W.W. Denslow's Sunday page adapts nursery rhymes into sequential narrative, following Simple Simon through a winter mishap on ice. Numbered panels advance the story: Simon talks with Mary's lamb, rushes to the mill-pond for skating tricks, falls through thin ice, and is rescued by named characters before being sent to bed. The strip demonstrates early comic grammar—speech balloons, panel progression, and silhouette figures against white space—that defined newspaper comic sections at the turn of the century. Denslow, known for *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* illustrations, pioneered visual storytelling techniques that became foundational to American comic art.