Carrie

Wood Cowan's *Carrie* employs the visual vocabulary that defined Sunday newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in domestic and adventure settings, and visual gags built from panel-to-panel progression. Here the protagonist recalls her romantic past—a sword fight, jousting, combat—while her present-day companion listens. The strip moves from nostalgic reverie to contemporary mundane reality, a rhythm typical of the era's humor strips. By the 1920s, newspaper comics had established the grammar of modern sequential art: overlapping dialogue, action lines, varied panel sizes, and the interplay between words and image. These Sunday pages and their daily counterparts became the direct ancestor of the comic book format that would emerge in the 1930s.