Dolby's Double

This newspaper comic strip follows a recurring character named Dolby through a case of mistaken identity. In six panels, the protagonist encounters his double and attempts to hide from an approaching police officer, leading to comedic confusion. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panel layout, speech balloons advancing narrative, and sight gags dependent on visual recognition. Published in the era when Sunday and daily newspaper strips were establishing the basic grammar of comic art—the use of panels to control pacing, recurring characters to build reader familiarity, and dialogue balloons to merge words and images into a unified storytelling form.