Great Caesar's Ghost! and Great Caesar's Goat!

This Sunday strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's visual vocabulary: sequential panels, speech balloons, and repeated characters across a six-panel grid. The narrative follows a young woman recounting a nighttime encounter with ghosts and a goat near classical ruins—a setup that escalates through comedic misunderstanding and escalating chaos. The artist employs heavy inking and silhouette to create contrast and speed across the page. By 1914, Sunday strips had become standard newspaper features, their formulaic layouts and recurring casts establishing the template that would define comic books when publishers began reprinting them in bound form in the 1930s. The strip demonstrates how daily deadlines and syndication demands shaped the medium's fundamental grammar: visual gags, word-and-image synchronization, and the panel as the basic unit of narrative time.