Fizzboomski the Anarchist—He Doesn't Get the Prime Minister?

This Sunday strip follows Fizzboomski, a mustachioed anarchist character, through a six-panel sequence. A bureaucrat delivers a packing case; Fizzboomski prepares to open it, then retreats in alarm. The joke culminates when the contents—a baby in a basket—arrive instead of an expected explosive device. The strip employs the visual vocabulary developed in early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring character types, and escalating gags. The humor derives from subverted expectation and physical comedy. Early 1900s Sunday strips like this established the narrative and visual grammar that would define comic strips and, later, comic books as a medium.