Ella Cinders

A Sunday strip from *Ella Cinders*, one of the most widely syndicated comic pages of the 1920s. The strip follows a poor girl and her pet dog Blackie through domestic chaos—here, a missing breakfast sets off a chain of mishaps across four panels. The visual grammar is characteristic of newspaper comics: recurring characters, multiple sequential scenes, speech balloons advancing the narrative, and sight gags building toward a punchline. Created by William Conselman and Charlie Plumb, *Ella Cinders* appeared in hundreds of newspapers and demonstrated how the Sunday page format could sustain ongoing character relationships while delivering daily humor to mass audiences—a foundation of modern comic storytelling.