Billy Bounce Punches Insubordination / The Teasers—Bobby Gets Another Bump

Two comic strips from the Sunday newspaper pages, featuring slapstick violence and physical comedy. The top strip shows Billy Bounce, a recurring character, disciplining insubordinate workers through repeated punching and kicking. The bottom strip, "The Teasers," depicts children tormenting Bobby until he retaliates with violence. Both strips employ the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged in rows, speech balloons carrying dialogue, exaggerated body language, and impact symbols conveying action. These strips exemplify the physical humor and recurring characters that populated American Sunday supplements in the early 1900s, before comic books as standalone publications existed.