Dolly the Drummer

Fred Morgan's *Dolly the Drummer* follows a young woman preparing for a diplomatic assignment to Bermuda. This Sunday strip demonstrates the visual sophistication of 1920s newspaper comics: sequential panels with precise spatial geography, expressive figure work, and overlapping dialogue balloons that guide readers through multiple scenes and conversations. The narrative unfolds across a full page, mixing domestic comedy with romantic plot threads. By the mid-1920s, strips like this had established the formal language—panel borders, word balloons, character continuity—that would become the foundation of the comic book medium emerging in the following decades.