The Goats Butt into Little Rastus

A nine-panel Sunday strip depicting a slapstick confrontation between two quarrelsome goats and a human character. The goats initiate combat with repeated headbutts, escalating to physical chaos across the sequence. The strip employs the conventions of early newspaper comics: multiple discrete panels arranged in grid formation, speech balloons advancing narrative and gags, and exaggerated body language conveying action and emotion. Character-driven humor and visual slapstick dominate the composition. This strip exemplifies the Sunday page format that emerged in the 1890s as newspapers competed for readership through illustrated humor—the direct precursor to the comic book form that would crystallize in the 1930s.