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Fuller Bunk

· August 5, 1918

Fuller Bunk
This daily strip by Meyer Marcus follows Fuller, a rotund character whose schemes consistently backfire. Here, Fuller attempts arithmetic before pivoting to wallpaper installation—only to have his wife interrupt with complaints about his taste. The humor relies on visual contrast: Fuller's exaggerated proportions against domestic interiors packed with decorative detail. Marcus employs the sequential panel structure standard to newspaper comics of the 1910s: speech balloons advance plot; character poses convey reaction and emotion. *Fuller Bunk* exemplifies the comedy strips that filled daily papers, where recurring characters and domestic mishaps generated reader loyalty across hundreds of installments.

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