Flapper Fanny

This daily strip follows a young girl and her friend negotiating the rules of scooter-sharing. The humor turns on a clash of expectations: one character promises half the scooter time, then attempts to monopolize it by running it downhill while the other must walk. The comic employs sequential panels with speech balloons to show cause and effect—a visual logic that became foundational to comics. The lightweight line work and expressive poses capture the energy of 1920s youth culture. Newspaper strips like this one established recurring characters, sight gags, and the panel-based narrative grammar that would define the medium when comic books emerged in the following decade.