Gabe

This Sunday page from *Gabe* demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics. The strip employs a six-panel grid structure with speech balloons, sequential narrative, and recurring characters—the hired man Henry, his employer, and domestic servants navigating household comedy. The humor turns on physical mishap and class-based misunderstanding: Henry's foot bath becomes the strip's running gag across multiple panels, creating continuity through visual repetition. Drawn in bold black line work typical of the 1910s, *Gabe* represents the Sunday supplement comics that directly preceded the comic book form, establishing the panel-and-balloon grammar that would structure all subsequent sequential art.