Buttons and Fatty

This Sunday comic strip follows two child characters through a brick-dropping mishap in an urban setting. The narrative unfolds across nine panels using sequential art conventions: scene-setting establishing shots, closeups of character reaction, and escalating physical comedy. The strip employs speech balloons and sound effects to convey action and dialogue. By the mid-1920s, newspaper comics had become a major entertainment medium, with Sunday pages offering larger formats for visual storytelling. Artists refined the visual vocabulary of comics—panel borders, character consistency, perspective—that would shape the emerging comic book industry. Strips like this appeared in newspapers nationwide, reaching mass audiences and establishing the foundational grammar of sequential panel narrative that defined comics as a distinct art form.