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

This Sunday comic page presents a six-panel narrative featuring Frappe, an anthropomorphic snowman in a top hat and striped coat, and his small human companion. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in early 1900s newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring character who drives the humor through physical comedy and unexpected situations. The gags turn on the snowman's interactions with the child—food offerings, mischief with other characters, and slapstick consequences. The artwork shows the bold linework and cross-hatching typical of newspaper reproduction, with strong black-and-white contrast. Sunday funnies like this one established the narrative vocabulary that would define comic strips and, later, comic books: the panel grid, character continuity, and visual storytelling independent of text.