Buck Hanson

A baseball comedy strip by John Lardner and Grant Powers, *Buck Hanson* follows a catcher and his teammates through dugout banter and field mishaps. Here, Buck explains why he won't let the Dutch walk—a practical lesson in baseball strategy wrapped in slapstick humor. The strip employs the standard grammar of newspaper comics: rectangular panels in sequence, speech balloons for dialogue, and recurring character types. Created during the golden age of the daily and Sunday strips, when newspapers carried multiple comic pages and artists developed visual shorthand that would shape the emerging comic book medium.