Bobby Make-Believe

A Sunday newspaper comic strip following a young boy's imaginative play. Bobby encounters a rabbit and fantasizes himself into the animal's world, acting out scenarios of escape, pursuit, and adventure across multiple panels. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions established by early comic pages: sequential panels with speech balloons, varied angles and close-ups, anthropomorphized animals, and narrative momentum driven by sight gags and slapstick action. Published in Sunday newspapers during the formative era of sequential art, *Bobby Make-Believe* exemplifies how daily and Sunday strips served as the laboratory for developing the visual language that would define comic books—panel division, lettering placement, and the coordination of text and image to guide reader movement across the page.