Billy Bounce at the Sea Shore

W. W. Denslow's *Billy Bounce* strips appeared in newspapers during the early 1900s, when the Sunday comic page was establishing itself as a major form of popular entertainment. Here, a young protagonist and his dog Fuzzy White navigate a seaside fishing mishap across six sequential panels, each advancing the plot through action and dialogue. Denslow's work exemplifies the visual language emerging from newspaper comics: distinct panel borders, speech balloons, exaggerated expressions, and recurring characters that readers followed week to week. The strip's physical comedy and simple narrative structure made it accessible to broad audiences, helping establish the conventions that would define comic strips and eventually the comic book format itself.