The Geevum Girls

Tim Early's *The Geevum Girls* follows three young women through domestic misadventures rendered in the visual language that emerged from early newspaper comics. The strip employs panel sequencing, speech balloons, and sight gags—a visual vocabulary developed by artists working in the Sunday and daily strips of the 1900s–1910s. Here, a chaotic household scene unfolds across four panels: a child's mishap escalates from conversation to violent destruction, each panel advancing the narrative through image and dialogue. The loose, gestural linework and exaggerated figures typical of the era convey physical comedy and character personality. By the 1920s, recurring characters in strips like this had become the foundation of comic book storytelling, establishing the sequential art form that would dominate popular culture.