Boys Will Be Boys

This Sunday strip follows a group of neighborhood boys through schemes and mischief across six sequential panels. The narrative unfolds through dialogue balloons and visual action: a plot involving a bicycle, a rival gang confrontation, and a climactic chase ending with maternal intervention. The strip employs the now-standard grammar of early comics—paneled grid layout, speech balloons, and recurring child characters—that evolved directly from newspaper illustration. By 1909, such strips appeared in Sunday supplements nationwide, establishing the visual and narrative conventions that would define the emerging comic book medium. The artist captures boyish energy through gesture and expression, grounding humor in recognizable domestic and street scenarios rather than fantasy.