Bobby Make-Believe

This Sunday strip follows young Bobby as he imagines himself swimming with fish, fleeing from giant waves, and diving near the Statue of Liberty—his fantasies unfolding across nine panels. The narrative shifts between reality and daydream, a common device in early comics. The strip employs the visual language standardized by newspaper comics: rectangular panels in grid sequence, speech balloons, and expressive line work that conveys action and emotion. Bobby Make-Believe belongs to the tradition of children's strips that dominated the Sunday funny pages in the 1910s, where imagination and adventure provided entertainment for young readers while artists refined the medium's visual vocabulary.