Bobby Make-Believe: Halloween Aviator

This Sunday comic strip follows young Bobby as he imagines himself a Halloween aviator, diving and looping through a nighttime cityscape filled with witches and jack-o'-lanterns. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels using sequential art conventions—speech balloons, varied panel sizes, and visual continuity—that were still being standardized in newspaper comics of the 1910s. Bobby's fantasy adventure reflects the era's fascination with early aviation and the entertainment value of childhood imagination. The strip demonstrates how newspaper comics developed a visual grammar distinct from illustration: recurring characters, episodic storytelling, and the interplay between dialogue and image that would define the medium as it evolved into the comic book form.