The Gimlet Club

A Sunday newspaper comic strip about golf club members negotiating the rules and etiquette of their sport. The six-panel layout uses sequential art to develop a humorous argument: a caddy questions whether hills count toward handicap, prompting escalating absurdist responses from club members. The strip employs speech balloons, exaggerated postures, and visual gags—including a final pratfall—to advance the joke across panels. Published during the medium's foundational era, when newspaper comics established the visual vocabulary of panel borders, word balloons, and recurring characters that would define the form. The artist uses ink linework and crosshatching typical of early-twentieth-century newspaper illustration.