Bobby Make-Believe

A Sunday comic strip following young Bobby through an elaborate dream sequence. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels: Bobby sleeps, encounters a mysterious figure, attends a formal party, flees through streets and forests, and awakens in panic. The strip employs sequential art conventions—varied panel sizes, speech balloons, and expressive line work—that became standard in newspaper comics. Its episodic dream logic and child protagonist exemplify early-twentieth-century comic storytelling, when newspaper pages provided the primary venue for narrative comics before the comic book format emerged in the 1930s.