From the exhibition
Bunny Bright, He's All-Right
· 1906

This Sunday comic strip features Bunny Bright, an anthropomorphic rabbit character, in a six-panel narrative about a confrontation with a bull in a farm setting. The strip demonstrates early comic strip conventions: sequential panels with captions, sight gags relying on physical comedy, and a recurring protagonist. The humor turns on Bunny's small stature versus the bull's size—first mistaking the bull for a garden pest, then narrowly avoiding being tossed over a fence. The artist uses bold black linework and selective shading typical of early 1900s newspaper illustration. Sunday pages like this were foundational to comic strip development, establishing visual storytelling methods and character-driven humor that would define the medium throughout the twentieth century.
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