Buttons and Fatty

This Sunday strip follows two child characters through a berry-picking expedition gone awry. The narrative unfolds across six panels using sequential art conventions—speech balloons, action lines, and varied compositions—that were still being formalized in the 1920s newspaper comics page. Buttons and Fatty move from discovering edible berries to an encounter with an angry sun, their misadventure building through visual gags and physical comedy. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comic strips of this era established the visual grammar later adopted by comic books: recurring characters, panel-to-panel continuity, and economical drawing styles suited to daily reproduction. Sunday pages like this one were the training ground where cartoonists and readers alike learned the medium's emerging language.