Billy Bounce and Fuzzy White Take Lo the Cigar Indian to the Fancy Dress Party

W. W. Denslow's *Billy Bounce* strip exemplifies early newspaper comics: six sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and slapstick gags. Here, protagonists Billy Bounce and Fuzzy White escort a character called Lo to a costume party, where chaos erupts—the Knave of Hearts knocks him from a box, triggering a chase that breaks up the gathering. Denslow's visual style—exaggerated proportions, dynamic action lines, and dense compositions—helped establish the visual vocabulary of comic strips. Published as a Sunday feature, such strips were central to newspapers' circulation wars and directly preceded the comic book format of the 1930s.