Bobby Make-Believe

This Sunday strip follows Bobby, a young magician's apprentice, through a series of increasingly elaborate tricks gone wrong. The narrative unfolds across nine panels in a grid layout characteristic of early newspaper comics. Bobby attempts transformations—a dog into a lamb, a bulldog into a ball—each scheme collapsing into physical comedy. The artist employs sequential visual storytelling: recurring character design (Bobby's striped costume), speech balloons to convey dialogue and intention, and panel-to-panel action that advances the gag. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1910s developed the formal vocabulary—paneling, word-image integration, character consistency—that would become foundational to the emerging comic book medium.