Bobby Make-Believe

A Sunday newspaper strip following young Bobby's imagination as he uses stilts to reach impossible heights. The narrative unfolds across nine panels, alternating between Bobby's fantastical vision—walking stilts as tall as a house, soaring above the landscape—and the reality of his stumbling descent. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comic narratives: sequential panels showing cause and effect, dialogue balloons capturing character voice, and a recurring protagonist. The humor derives from the gap between Bobby's ambitions and his physical limitations, a formula common to domestic comedy strips of the era. Published in Sunday newspapers, such strips were foundational to the medium's visual language, establishing how artists could compress narrative across multiple frames and develop character through repeated appearances.