Frappe the Snow Man

This six-panel Sunday strip follows Frappe, a rotund snowman who encounters thieves, robbers, and other winter-bound trouble. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels showing physical comedy: Frappe is chased, robbed, and finally cornered by a mob seeking gold. The artist employs the visual grammar of early newspaper comics—speech balloons, action lines, and recurring character types—to advance the story across panels. The strip's slapstick humor and chase narrative typify the Sunday supplement humor pages that emerged in the 1890s-1900s, when comic strips began serializing in newspapers. These weekly pages established the medium's formal vocabulary: panel borders, speech integration, and character consistency that would define the nascent comic book form.