Foxy Grandpa Escapes from the Lock-Up

This Sunday page follows Foxy Grandpa's escape from a bathhouse lockup through nine sequential panels. The elderly protagonist outwits two boys by using a pole to knock over the structure itself, then vanishes while they survey the wreckage. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: speech balloons, numbered panels with captions, recurring characters, and escalating physical comedy. Published in the Sunday supplements that preceded comic books, *Foxy Grandpa* ran from 1900 to 1918 and helped establish the medium's visual grammar—the panel-based narrative structure and character consistency that became foundational to American comics.