Foxy Grandpa

This Sunday page follows the visual formula that defined early newspaper comics: six panels arranged in a grid, each advancing a single gag through sequential art. Two boys attempt to frighten their grandfather with a bedsheet ghost, only to have him turn the trick back on them. The strip employs speech balloons and recurring characters—the cunning elderly protagonist and his young antagonists—that appeared weekly and built reader loyalty across decades. The pen-and-ink linework, clear panel borders, and narrative clarity established templates that cartoonists would refine throughout the twentieth century. *Foxy Grandpa*, which ran from 1900 to 1918, was among the first strips to sustain commercial success through newspapers, proving that serialized comic narratives could reach mass audiences.