Gabe by Frueh

A Sunday comic strip featuring Gabe, a recurring character navigating winter mishaps. The six-panel layout unfolds a narrative arc: children discover an icy patch, attempt to fool a man with a whip-jack, and the man ends up sprawled in the snow. Frueh employs the visual conventions emerging in newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and physical comedy as the engine of plot. By the 1910s, Sunday supplements had become the proving ground for artists developing the visual grammar that would define comic strips and, later, comic books: the use of panel borders to control pacing, expressive figure drawing, and recurring characters familiar to loyal readers.