Fuller Bunk

This single-panel gag strip features a character in formal dress playing a violin, with the caption explaining that girls learn piano to marry well, while boys learn violin to serenade their wives for money. The economy of line and expressive caricature—shaggy hair rendered in quick hatching, the exaggerated nose and chin—typifies newspaper comic illustration of the 1920s. The format and visual shorthand derive directly from earlier editorial cartooning, adapting those techniques to humor focused on domestic life and gender relations. Such brief, self-contained gags populated the newspaper funny pages alongside longer narrative strips, establishing the visual conventions—expressive distortion, gestural drawing, economy of composition—that would become foundational to comic books.