The Geevum Girls

Tim Early's *Geevum Girls* follows a household of young women navigating domestic work and social friction. This Sunday strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags built on physical comedy. The strip's layout—moving from intimate interior scenes to street-level action—reflects how cartoonists of the 1910s and 1920s adapted cinematic principles to the printed page. Such strips, distributed nationally through syndication, established the narrative and visual grammar that would become foundational to comic books.