The Explorigator: Admiral Fudge Fleets the Man in the Moon

This Sunday comic from *The Call* (San Francisco) follows Admiral Fudge's lunar expedition through six panels of escalating comic invention. The strip employs the visual grammar that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, sight gags, and recurring characters caught in absurd situations. Fudge encounters Moon inhabitants, gravity-defying antics, and architectural impossibilities rendered in crisp black-and-white linework. The strip exemplifies how Sunday supplements functioned as laboratories for visual storytelling—artists experimenting with panel layout, pacing, and the interplay of image and text. These newspaper pages established the formal vocabulary that comic books would later inherit and codify.