The General

A six-panel Sunday strip by Arnot featuring a pint-sized general commanding an imaginary army. The humor hinges on the protagonist's escalating misadventures: he issues orders to his troops, discovers a sugar supply, attempts to defend it, and ultimately finds himself under attack and splashed in muddy water. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that define early newspaper comics—sequential panels with clear action, expressive character design, and sight gags that require no dialogue to land. By the 1920s, the Sunday funnies had become a testing ground for comedic timing and physical humor, with artists like Arnot building short narrative arcs within a single page.