More Lemons at a Cent Apiece

By F. G. Long, this strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics. Three panels present sequential gags featuring exaggerated child characters and typography-heavy headlines: "Thaw Escapes!" "Thaw Hits Judge!" and "Thaw Shovels Snow!"—each playing on contemporary news. The layout uses overlapping speech balloons, gesture-driven action, and bold lettering to guide the reader's eye across panels. Characters display period caricature style with simplified features and proportioned bodies. This Sunday page represents how newspapers deployed comic strips as entertainment tied to current events, establishing visual grammar—panel borders, speech balloons, recurring scenarios—that would become foundational to comic book storytelling.