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Fuller Bunk

· July 25, 1920

Fuller Bunk
A four-panel daily strip featuring Fuller, a rotund character in a bowler hat navigating workplace anxiety and social convention. The first panel establishes tension—Fuller fears losing his job without insurance. The subsequent panels show a conversation with another figure, building toward a comic reversal: Fuller's concern about life's inevitability gives way to pride in his insurance status, only to deflate when his interlocutor reveals he already carries coverage. The strip uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and visual repetition of character design—hallmarks of newspaper comics that shaped the medium's visual language in the 1920s.

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