Dear Little Katy

This Sunday strip follows a small girl's misadventures with a succession of visiting uncles and authority figures. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels in a grid layout, tracking Katy's escalating chaos—from initial mischief through increasingly frantic adult reactions. The artist employs speech balloons, sequential panel progression, and a consistent cast of characters to build comedic momentum. Published in the newspaper Sunday pages, *Dear Little Katy* exemplifies the early comic strip's reliance on slapstick gags, exaggerated expressions, and visual continuity to carry a narrative. The strip demonstrates how newspapers pioneered the visual grammar—repeated characters, panel flow, dialogue integration—that would become foundational to comic book storytelling.