The Adventures of Kitty Cobb by James Montgomery Flagg

James Montgomery Flagg's serialized strip *The Adventures of Kitty Cobb* appeared in newspapers as a picture-story format, a precursor to modern comic strips. Each episode advances the narrative through sequential illustration—here, episode XIV shows Kitty's sweetheart Robert winning her hand despite her sister's social objections. Flagg's pen work captures Edwardian drawing-room comedy through gesture and composition rather than dialogue alone. The strip exemplifies how newspaper Sunday pages of the 1910s developed visual storytelling conventions: recurring characters, narrative continuity across installments, and expressive figure drawing that would become foundational to comic art. This serial format bridged illustrated fiction and the panel-based comics that emerged later.