Goops

This Sunday page strip follows two round-headed child characters through a lesson in hygiene. The narrative unfolds across nine panels in a grid structure: a parent corrects the children's dirty faces, they resist washing, then gradually comply under adult supervision. The visual language—panel borders, speech balloons, sequential action showing cause and effect—exemplifies techniques pioneered in early newspaper comics. *Goops* was part of the prolific Sunday funny pages that established comics as mass entertainment and provided the formal vocabulary later adopted by comic books. The strip's focus on child behavior and moral instruction reflects popular educational themes of the 1920s newspaper comic.