Bunny Bright: He's All-Right

This Sunday strip follows Bunny Bright and a duck through a sequence of slapstick riverside gags. When Bunny loses his watch and purse to a river, the duck offers increasingly dubious rescue advice—suggesting the water is "not too hot" and "deep enough to dive in." Each panel escalates the physical comedy as Bunny repeatedly enters the water, only to emerge in progressively worse states. The strip demonstrates early comic page design: repeating characters, sequential narrative across six panels, speech balloons for dialogue, and ink rendering typical of newspaper Sunday comics. Such strips, which appeared regularly in major dailies, established the visual language and recurring-character format that would become foundational to the comic book medium that emerged two decades later.