Bobby Make-Believe

This Sunday strip follows two boys on a backyard adventure, digging in a ditch and imagining themselves in the trenches of World War I. The narrative unfolds across six panels with the classic visual language of early newspaper comics: speech balloons, sequential action, and a shift from mundane reality to vivid fantasy. The final panel presents the boys' imagined combat scene in explosive detail. The strip exemplifies how early-twentieth-century newspaper comics used recurring child characters and domestic settings as entry points for storytelling, allowing young readers to explore current events through play and imagination. This format—mixing everyday life with fantastical sequences—became fundamental to comic strip construction and later the comic book form.