Goops

Gelett Burgess's *Goops* strip featured round-headed children in domestic situations, exploring manners and social behavior through simple visual narratives. The Sunday page employs sequential panel layouts with speech balloons to show cause and effect—here, a mother's exasperation at muddy footprints leads to repeated admonishments. The recurring characters and domestic setting exemplify how newspaper comics of the 1920s established visual storytelling conventions: consistent characterization, panel-to-panel continuity, and dialogue anchoring action. *Goops* appeared in Sunday supplements nationwide, part of the medium's foundational transition from gag cartoons to serialized narrative strips that would shape the emerging comic book form.