Frappe the Snowman and His Papa

This Sunday strip follows Frappe, an anthropomorphic snowman, and his father through a series of physical gags and encounters with Native Americans. The artist employs the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons advancing narrative and humor, and exaggerated character designs. Recurring characters and situational comedy—hallmarks of the Sunday page format—anchor reader engagement across multiple installments. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1900s developed the visual grammar that would define the medium: panel borders creating temporal sequence, typography integrated with illustration, and slapstick humor told through body language and expression rather than prose alone.