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

A nine-panel Sunday strip following two characters at a courthouse as one attempts to settle a dispute over a pig. The strip relies on visual gags—exaggerated expressions, physical comedy, and repeated character poses—as the argument spirals into absurdity, with each panel advancing the action through sequential art. The composition demonstrates the core mechanics of newspaper comics: speech balloons carrying rapid-fire dialogue, distinct panel borders guiding the reader's eye, and caricatured figures whose expressions convey humor independent of text. This visual language, pioneered in newspaper funny pages of the early 1900s, became the foundation for modern comic books.