Bunny Bright, He's All-Right

This comic strip follows Bunny, an anthropomorphic rabbit, and Mr. Badger as they scheme to dig a hole for a flagpole. Across six panels, their plan develops from proposal through physical comedy: Badger suggests borrowing a battleship, Bunny enlists the rodent's labor, and the strip climaxes in slapstick as the digging goes awry. The strip employs sequential narrative panels with speech balloons—visual conventions that newspapers were standardizing in the early 1900s. Recurring animal characters, simple linework, and sight gags typified the Sunday newspaper comics that preceded the commercial comic book. Such strips established the visual grammar and character-driven humor that would define the medium.