The Geevum Girls

Tim Early's *Geevum Girls* strip follows a group of young women navigating domestic life and social situations with physical comedy and rapid-fire dialogue. This Sunday page demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions established in newspaper comics: sequential panels advance the narrative, speech balloons convey character voice, and exaggerated body language drives the humor. The strip's ensemble cast and domestic setting were typical of humor strips aimed at female readers during the post-World War I era, when newspapers competed for audience attention through expanding comic sections. Early's work exemplifies how the Sunday comic page—with its larger format and multi-panel layouts—became the testing ground for visual narrative techniques that would define the emerging medium of comic books.