Caddie by Wood Cowan

This Sunday strip follows Caddie, a young woman navigating urban life and romance. The narrative unfolds across nine panels with recurring characters—Caddie, a male suitor, and supporting players—bound by speech balloons and sequential action. Wood Cowan employs the visual vocabulary established by earlier newspaper cartoonists: panel borders to segment time, overlapping dialogue to show simultaneous conversation, and exaggerated poses for comedic effect. The domestic scenario and fashion-conscious characterization typify 1920s newspaper humor. Such strips populated the Sunday funny pages alongside adventure serials, establishing the panel-and-dialogue format that became foundational to American comic books.