Life's Little Incidents

James Montgomery Flagg's *Life's Little Incidents* presents a single-panel gag featuring a woman at the wheel of an early automobile surrounded by cherubs and a broken tree, with the caption "Can't You Really Make It Go, George?" Flagg's pen technique employs bold cross-hatching and fluid linework typical of early twentieth-century newspaper comic illustration. The artist worked across multiple formats—advertising, editorial cartooning, and comic strips—helping establish the visual conventions that would define newspaper comics: exaggerated expressions, energetic composition, and narrative clarity. This Sunday strip exemplifies how newspaper humor pages served as the primary venue for sequential art before the comic book format emerged in the 1930s.