A Few More Lemons at a Cent Apiece

F. G. Long's *Few More Lemons* strips appeared in *The Evening Fudge*, a newspaper comic section featuring recurring characters in four-panel dailies. Each panel displays sensational headlines from the newspaper—"Brain Explosion Kills Seven," "$1 Watch," "Thaw Says I Had to Kill Him"—which the characters react to with exaggerated expressions and physical comedy. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' formal innovations: sequential panels, speech balloons, and character consistency. These Sunday and daily strips, originating in the 1890s, established the visual language that would define comics for decades, with artists developing the panel-to-panel narrative flow and caricature techniques that became foundational to the medium.