The Dippy Dudes

This Sunday strip presents two recurring characters—a lanky dude in formal wear and his stocky, plaid-suited companion—in a six-panel gag sequence. The tall figure attempts to sell the other a cigar, leading to slapstick escalation: refusal, a chase, and ultimately a collision involving an umbrella and hat. The strip employs the visual grammar now standard to comics: sequential panels with speech balloons advancing a narrative arc toward a punchline. Published during the newspaper Sunday pages' golden age, such strips established the formal vocabulary—panel borders, word-picture integration, character consistency—that would define the emerging comic book medium.