A Few More Lemons at a Cent Apiece

F. G. Long's *Few More Lemons* presents four tabloid newspaper comic gags in a single Sunday strip. Each panel features a character with an exaggerated expression—wide eyes, open mouth—reacting to absurd headlines from the fictional *Evening Fudge*: a woman trapped in a runaway car, a madman's cell explosion, a wife kissing Jerome, a monkey's zoo escape. Long employs the visual conventions emerging in early-1900s newspaper comics: bold lettering, speech balloons, and caricatured figures to convey quick laughs through surprise and slapstick. This strip exemplifies the daily and Sunday pages that preceded the comic book format, where short, joke-driven strips filled newspaper space and established the visual language—panel sequencing, expressive drawing, typographic emphasis—that would define American comics for decades.