Fizzboomski the Anarchist—He Tries to Pot the Prime Minister

This Sunday comic strip follows Fizzboomski, a comic anarchist character, through a failed assassination plot against the Prime Minister. Using sequential panels with speech balloons and visual gags, the strip documents his repeated attempts—climbing a chimney, rigging explosives, calling in bomb threats by telephone—each thwarted by circumstance or the Minister's evasion. The narrative unfolds through six panels combining slapstick comedy with political satire. As a newspaper Sunday feature, this strip exemplifies the early visual language of comic strips: recurring characters, panel-to-panel continuity, and humor derived from both situation and exaggerated illustration. Such strips were foundational to the emerging comic book medium, establishing conventions of character development and sequential storytelling that would define the form.