A Few More Lemons at a Cent Apiece

F. G. Long's Sunday comic strip demonstrates the visual conventions that emerged from early newspaper comics. Four panels track recurring characters through escalating absurdist scenarios—aliens declaring madness, testimony to a stall, boasts about roasted whites, and finally an explosion. The strip uses speech balloons, sequential panel layout, and exaggerated character design typical of the era. These Sunday supplement comics, published widely in newspapers from the 1890s onward, established the narrative and visual vocabulary that would define comic books: recurring characters, panel-to-panel continuity, and humor driven by both image and text working in concert.