Bobby Make-Believe

This Sunday comic strip follows a child's imaginative journey as he envisions himself in fantastical scenarios—from bathing in a giant pudding to piloting aircraft and meeting Santa Claus in a snow-covered forest. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring child protagonist, and shifts between domestic reality and dream sequences. By the 1910s, such strips had become essential Sunday newspaper fare, establishing the narrative and visual grammar—panel borders, word balloons, expressive cartooning—that would define the medium as comic books emerged.