Cynthianna Blythe

A Sunday newspaper comic strip with drawings by Wallace Morgan and verses by Harry Grant Dart. The narrative follows young Cynthianna's Fourth of July mishap: her group's Independence Day plans go awry when a firecracker explodes near Teddy, a dog, causing chaos through her neighborhood. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons and narrative captions to unfold the story across eight scenes. Morgan's pen-and-ink illustrative style captures period clothing and domestic settings typical of early 1900s comics. This page exemplifies the Sunday supplement format that became foundational to American comics—combining visual narrative with written verse to tell episodic stories of named characters in recognizable social situations.