Campus Comedy

This Sunday newspaper comic strip exemplifies the visual conventions that shaped early comics: multiple panels arranged in grid sequence, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring characters in domestic and college-life situations. *Campus Comedy* featured the domestic gags and social humor typical of 1920s Sunday pages—situations drawn from student life, romantic mishaps, and family routines. The strip's reliance on sequential panels to convey action and dialogue established the grammar newspapers would pass directly into comic books. Through strips like this, distributed nationally to hundreds of papers, artists standardized the panel-to-panel narrative flow and character continuity that became fundamental to the medium.