Great Caesar's Ghost and Great Caesar's Goat

This Sunday strip demonstrates the visual innovations that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring cast of absurdist characters, and sight gags built on physical comedy. The plot—a ghost and goat causing domestic chaos—unfolds across twelve panels with clear panel-to-panel progression. The artist uses expressive linework and exaggerated proportions typical of the era's cartooning style. By 1914, the Sunday comics page had become the primary laboratory for developing the visual language later adopted by comic books: panel borders, word balloons, perspective, and the timing of visual jokes across a fixed grid. These newspaper strips were the direct ancestors of the medium's formal grammar.