The Goats Bump the Bum

A six-panel Sunday strip featuring two anthropomorphic goats in a recurring encounter with a man in formal dress. The narrative follows a simple escalating gag: the goats repeatedly butt the gentleman, who protests and threatens, only to be knocked down again. The artist uses sequential panel layout with speech balloons to convey action and dialogue across a single page—formal elements that defined early comic strip language. Animal characters engaging in physical comedy were staples of turn-of-the-century newspaper humor, appealing to both children and adults in the Sunday comics sections that preceded the assembled comic book.