Foxy Grandpa Turns the Tables: Joke on the Boys

This Sunday strip follows the title character through six panels of escalating slapstick. Two boys attempt to trick Foxy Grandpa with a dummy and firecrackers; the old man outsmarts them, ultimately trapping them in a cloud of smoke and debris. The comic employs sequential visual narrative—recurring characters, speech balloons, and numbered panels—techniques that newspapers had pioneered in the preceding decade. *Foxy Grandpa*, which debuted in 1900, ranked among the most popular strips of the early newspaper comic era, demonstrating how serialized humor with a clever protagonist could build loyal readership and establish the formal vocabulary that would define comic strips and, later, comic books.