Gabe

A Sunday page from *Gabe*, a newspaper comic strip featuring a young child and various urban characters. The strip employs panel sequences, speech balloons, and sequential narrative—visual conventions that became fundamental to American comics. The six-panel layout guides readers through a scene involving children at a city park where they encounter a dog and interact with adults. Frueh's draftsmanship captures period street life with quick, gestural line work. Newspaper strips like *Gabe* served as the immediate predecessors to comic books, establishing the language of panel borders, word-image integration, and recurring character types that would define the medium for decades.