Bobby Make-Believe

A Sunday comic strip following young Bobby's imaginative adventures using a baby carriage as a vessel for fantasy. Each panel depicts the carriage transformed—first into a supply wagon for Boer forces, then a submarine, artillery piece, and armored automobile—as Bobby narrates military scenarios to his playmate Spud. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual conventions: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring child characters, and escalating slapstick. Published in the Sunday pages when comic strips were establishing the medium's formal grammar—panel borders, caption boxes, and sight gags that would become foundational to comic book storytelling.