Papa Goat Butts Again

This newspaper comic strip depicts a recurring character—Papa Goat—engaged in his signature behavior of butting with his horns. The six-panel sequence follows a classic gag structure: setup, escalation, and payoff. A human antagonist provokes the goat across multiple panels, leading to increasingly chaotic results as Papa Goat's headbutting demolishes a brick wall. The strip employs speech balloons, sequential panel progression, and physical comedy typical of early-1900s newspaper comics. These dailies and Sunday pages established visual conventions—panel borders, expressive line work, animal characters with human speech—that would become foundational to comic book language.