Dad in Kidland

A Sunday newspaper comic strip by Carey depicting domestic chaos when a father chases the family's mischievous cat through the house. The six-panel layout uses sequential storytelling and speech balloons to build comedic momentum: the father warns he won't hurt "the poor thing," yet ends up tumbling headlong as the cat leads him on a wild pursuit. His daughter watches with amusement as he crashes into furniture and walls. The strip employs sight gags typical of early comic strips—physical slapstick, exaggerated poses, and the running character type of the befuddled patriarch. Published in the era when newspaper comics established the visual language of panel borders, dialogue balloons, and recurring domestic characters that would define the emerging medium.