Billy Possum: His Life and Adventures

Written by Paul West with pictures by Horace Taylor, *Billy Possum* follows an anthropomorphic animal protagonist through comedic escapades rendered in the visual language that Sunday newspaper comics were establishing as standard. Multiple panels with speech balloons, expressive line work, and sequential narrative flow demonstrate how the funny pages of the early 1900s adapted theatrical and dime-novel storytelling to the printed page. Animal characters like Billy inhabited strips of this era, allowing artists to explore slapstick humor and social satire within frameworks familiar to newspaper readers accustomed to fables and folk traditions.