Bobby Make-Believe

This Sunday strip follows young Bobby's imaginative visit to the dentist, a scenario that plays out across multiple panels showing both the boy's anxious reality and his vivid fantasies of what dental work might entail. The artist uses sequential panels and speech balloons to move between Bobby's worried questions and the dentist's reassurances, while the visual gags—exaggerated instruments, comic misunderstandings about dental procedures—anchor the humor in childhood perspective. The strip exemplifies the newspaper Sunday page format that directly influenced early comic book layouts: recurring characters, panel-to-panel narrative flow, and the marriage of text and image to tell a complete story in a single installment.