Bud 'n' Bub: Cousin Ann Joins Our Family

Ed Kressy's *Bud 'n' Bub* uses the Sunday newspaper format to blend humor with historical education. Here, Cousin Ann introduces the family to European headwear across centuries—from fifteenth-century Bruges to sixteenth-century German styles to a 1670 man's hat. Speech balloons carry exposition and comedic asides across discrete panels, while recurring child characters anchor the narrative. The strip demonstrates how newspapers serialized both entertainment and instruction, with artists employing sequential panels and visual repetition to guide readers through time and geography. This educational-comic hybrid was typical of the era's Sunday supplements, which combined domestic humor with cultural or historical lessons for family audiences.