Great Caesar's Ghost and Great Caesar's Coat

A slapstick Sunday page featuring a character mistaking a ghost for Caesar's phantom. The strip employs the visual vocabulary now standard to comics: sequential panels progressing narrative action, speech balloons capturing dialogue, and exaggerated expressions conveying surprise and fear. The gag escalates across nine panels—a woman encounters an apparition, attempts to flee down stairs, loses her balance, and tumbles downward in a tumbling sequence rendered through multiple frames. The border decoration of small character vignettes was typical of Sunday newspaper comics, which served as the primary venue for sequential art before the rise of comic books. By 1914, the newspaper Sunday page had become the proving ground for visual storytelling techniques that would define the medium.