Great Caesar's Ghost and Great Caesar's Goat

A Sunday newspaper comic employing the visual conventions that defined early comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring cast of characters engaged in slapstick farce. The strip follows a familiar narrative structure—a woman and her companion encounter Caesar's ghost, leading to a series of escalating gags across nine panels. The artist uses bold black ink lines and high contrast to create dynamic movement and readable detail even at newspaper reproduction size. By 1913, such Sunday pages were the primary venue for comics in America, establishing the visual language—panel borders, word balloons, onomatopoeia—that would become foundational to the medium when reprinted in bound collections and eventually dedicated comic books.