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From the exhibition

Fuller Bunk

· September 26, 1920

Fuller Bunk
A domestic comedy strip following a husband's misadventure. The husband asks his wife for a coin, claims exhaustion from work, then contradicts himself by admitting he made her tired through their marriage—only to deny knowledge of the slip moments later. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the 1910s: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive line work, and physical comedy. Recurring characters and domestic situations were staples of the Sunday comics pages, where artists developed the visual grammar that would become foundational to comic books. The strip's rapid-fire dialogue and character interaction exemplify how newspaper strips trained readers in following narrative across panels.

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