Buttons and Fatty

This Sunday strip follows two child characters through a six-panel narrative sequence. Grandfather's cigar smoke irritates young Fatty, who retaliates by spraying him with a garden hose. The escalating prank leads to chaos: Fatty is chased around the yard, jumps the fence, and hides in a garbage can before Grandfather catches him. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics—sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated expressions, and action lines to convey motion and emotion. Published in the 1920s Sunday pages, such strips were the direct precursors to comic books, establishing the grammar of panel layout, character development across episodes, and sight gags that would define the medium for generations.