Economical Bertie Makes a Good Resolve but Breaks It

This Sunday comic strip follows Bertie's comic misadventures across six panels as she resolves to stop spending money on clothes, only to abandon her promise moments later. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to advance a gag narrative—visual conventions inherited from earlier newspaper comics. Bertie's exaggerated poses and expressions, rendered in bold line work, carry the humor across the page. The protagonist recurs across multiple panels, allowing readers to follow her emotional arc from determination to capitulation. Published in an era when Sunday comics were establishing themselves as a dominant form of newspaper entertainment, such strips demonstrated the medium's capacity for character-driven humor and visual storytelling.