Life's Little Incidents

James Montgomery Flagg's *Life's Little Incidents* exemplifies the Sunday comic strip format that emerged in American newspapers during the early 1900s. The strip presents a single gag—*The Sexes' Sigh*—rendered across multiple figures in a continuous beach scene. Flagg's clean ink line and figure work, combined with his use of sequential positioning to build narrative momentum, demonstrate the visual conventions developing in newspaper comics: recurring character types, expressive body language, and spatial arrangement to guide the reader's eye. Published during the Sunday supplement boom, such strips established templates for comedic timing and character interaction that would define the medium for decades.