Bobby Make-Believe

A Sunday page combining strip narrative with visual fantasy. Bobby imagines his pet mouse as progressively larger animals—rabbit, dog, wolf, dinosaur, elephant—each panel escalating the absurdity through simple line drawing and speech balloons. The format exemplifies early newspaper comic construction: recurring child protagonist, sequential panels with captions, direct address to reader, and escalating gags. The strip's humor relies on the reader following panel-to-panel logic while accepting sudden shifts in scale and scenario. This page demonstrates how the Sunday comics of the 1910s established foundational techniques—panel borders, word balloons anchored to speakers, visual continuity across frames—that would become the visual grammar of comic books.