From the exhibition
Ella Cinders
· July 1, 1925
A Sunday strip by Bill Conselman and Charlie Plumb featuring the adventures of Ella Cinders, a young woman navigating domestic life and romantic mishaps. The narrative unfolds across six panels: Ella discovers her attic cluttered with junk, finds a mysterious photograph, receives a phone call about her father, and manages household crises while fretting over her boyfriend Blackie's whereabouts. The strip exemplifies 1920s newspaper comic conventions—recurring characters, sequential visual storytelling across panels, dialogue balloons, and sight gags. Ella Cinders ran in daily and Sunday formats, helping establish the comic strip as a popular form alongside early pulp adventures, contributing to the visual language that would shape comic books.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain
