From the exhibition
Fuller Bunk Says
· September 21, 1920

A single-panel gag strip featuring a character named Fuller Bunk, drawn in the broad cartooning style typical of early twentieth-century newspaper comics. The protagonist, rendered with exaggerated features and dressed in formal attire, grins widely while holding a telephone receiver to his ear. The visual joke depends on wordplay: the caption reads, "I'm a wife 'Buckie' because she keeps his a bill"—a pun on the homophone relationship between "Buckie" (a name) and "bucking" (resisting payment). The strip exemplifies the daily humor format that populated newspaper comics pages alongside serialized adventure narratives, using simple line work, bold black fills, and hand-lettered text to deliver quick, punchy comedy to readers.
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