Boys Will Be Boys

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows young characters through a sequence of mischievous escapades: donning theatrical costumes, staging a mock ceremony, engaging in physical roughhousing, and culminating in domestic chaos. The six-panel layout demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early twentieth-century comics—discrete rectangular frames advancing narrative time, speech balloons conveying dialogue, and expressive ink drawing capturing motion and character reaction. Such strips, syndicated across newspapers nationwide, established the visual language and serialized character relationships that would become foundational to comic books. The title itself reflects period humor about boyish behavior as inevitable, even inevitable.