From the exhibition
How the Goat Family Got Easter Bonnets
· April 23, 1905

This six-panel Sunday comic follows a goat family's chaotic encounter with a group of well-dressed people and their Easter bonnets. The narrative unfolds through action and dialogue balloons: the goats spot the fashionable headwear, the family members discuss the items, the goats charge and scatter the crowd, and finally the animals proudly display their stolen bonnets. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on slapstick humor, animal characters, and sequential visual storytelling. Published during the era when Sunday funnies drove newspaper circulation, this piece demonstrates the emerging graphic vocabulary—panel borders, speech balloons, and repeated characters—that would define the medium.
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