Bunny Bright, He's All-Right

A six-panel Sunday comic featuring Bunny Bright, an anthropomorphic rabbit in formal dress, attempting to retrieve his lost hay from water. When a spaniel refuses to fetch it, Bunny proposes his own plan—which backfires spectacularly, landing him in the water while the dog watches from shore. The strip employs the visual vocabulary pioneered in early newspaper comics: sequential panels with continuous narrative, speech balloons, and a recurring protagonist whose personality drives the gag. The economical pen work and high-contrast blacks are typical of early-1900s Sunday supplements, when newspaper comic strips became the primary vehicle for sequential storytelling in America and established the formal language of the medium.