Fuller Bunk

A domestic comedy strip following Fuller and his household. This panel sequence demonstrates the rapid-fire gag structure that defined newspaper comics of the 1910s: each panel advances a single joke, connected by visual continuity and speech balloons. Fuller's wife catches him in a small lie about his tonic; his excuses escalate across five panels before collapsing into domestic defeat. The strip's economy of line and reliance on recurring character types—the exasperated husband, the skeptical wife—reflects how newspaper comics adapted vaudeville timing to sequential art. Such strips filled the Sunday pages and daily editions that served as the direct precursor to the comic book format, establishing the visual grammar of panels, word balloons, and narrative momentum that would define the medium.