Gabe

This Sunday page follows Gabe and his cousins Willie and Paul as they learn a new game from city boy John Smith. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a cast of recurring child characters navigating urban play and mischief. The broad physical comedy and exaggerated expressions typify the slapstick humor of the era. Published in the Sunday supplement tradition, such strips reached millions of readers and established the narrative and visual language that would become foundational to the comic book medium—panel borders, word-image integration, and serialized character development across multiple frames.