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The Doo Dads: Tiny Gets Even with the Cop

· August 16, 1925

The Doo Dads: Tiny Gets Even with the Cop
This Sunday strip follows Tiny and his animal companions as they outwit a sleeping policeman through escalating pranks. The narrative unfolds across eight panels using sequential art conventions—speech balloons, action lines, and varied panel composition—that became standard vocabulary for newspaper comics. The artist employs slapstick humor typical of the 1920s funny-animal genre, where recurring child and animal characters engaged readers through ongoing mischief. Such strips, published daily and Sunday in newspapers nationwide, established the visual grammar and narrative structures that would define the emerging comic book medium.

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