Sweet, Charming Katy

This Sunday strip follows a small girl named Katy through a dental visit, rendered in the exaggerated style typical of early-twentieth-century newspaper comics. The artist uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and physical comedy to track Katy's reluctance, evasion, and eventual surrender at the dentist's chair. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era—distributed in Sunday supplements and daily editions—established the visual vocabulary of sequential art: consistent characters, panel borders, expressive caricature, and sight gags that drive narrative through image rather than text alone. These strips were the direct precursor to the modern comic book format.