The Strange Adventures of Frappe, the Snowman, and His Papa

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows Frappe, an anthropomorphic snowman with distinctive wing-like appendages, and his papa through six sequential panels of slapstick misadventure. The strip exemplifies early 1900s comic page design: multiple tiers, speech balloons conveying rapid dialogue and reaction, and recurring characters in escalating gags. The exaggerated round forms and expressive faces reflect the era's cartoon vocabulary, while the panel-to-panel narrative flow demonstrates how newspapers pioneered visual storytelling conventions that would define comic books. Winter-themed humor and physical comedy dominate the humor typical of the period's Sunday funnies.