From the exhibition
Great Caesar's Ghost and Great Caesar's Goat
· February 22, 1914

This Sunday page strips narrative across nine panels, following a dinner party disrupted by ghostly and comedic mishaps. Characters pass food, place bets on how many hearts Caesar's ghost will consume, and witness slapstick chaos—culminating in a figure launching through the air with kitchen implements. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: sequential rectangular panels, speech balloons, exaggerated expressions, and recurring characters gathered around a central setting. The artist uses clear line work and high contrast to guide the reader's eye through the gag-driven narrative, a hallmark of the Sunday pages that popularized comic storytelling in the early twentieth century.
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