Bobby Make-Believe

This Sunday newspaper comic follows young Bobby through an imaginative adventure: after his father punishes him for misbehavior, Bobby fantasizes about running away to live in the woods. The strip showcases the visual conventions that defined early comics—sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive ink drawing, and a child protagonist navigating between reality and imagination. Published in the Sunday Tribune, *Bobby Make-Believe* exemplifies the newspaper comic strip's role as the direct precursor to the comic book format. Artists working in the 1910s pioneered the panel-based grammar and character-driven narratives that would define American sequential art for decades.