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Carrie

· October 18, 1925

Carrie
A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring a young woman and her domestic life. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in various domestic settings, and humor derived from everyday situations and romantic misunderstandings. The artwork employs cross-hatching and bold linework typical of 1920s newspaper illustration. By the mid-1920s, strips like this filled Sunday supplements nationwide, establishing the visual language and narrative structures that would directly inform the emerging comic book medium of the 1930s and beyond.

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