Bud 'n' Bub: When Buffalo Started a Town

This Sunday strip by Ed Kressy features Bud and Bub receiving a letter about local history—a common narrative device in newspaper comics of the era. The strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons to unfold a story about how Buffalo herds shaped settlement patterns in Pennsylvania, specifically the clearing that became Clearfield. The woodcut-style illustrations and dense information panels typify how comic strips functioned as both entertainment and informal education in early newspapers, blending humor with historical and geographical instruction to engage readers of all ages.