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

A Sunday newspaper comic strip in the early visual language of sequential art. The narrative unfolds through twelve panels showing a man harassed by a mischievous goat—chased indoors, through doorways, and into escalating chaos. The artist employs speech balloons, expressive linework, and rapid-fire action sequences to convey physical comedy. By 1914, the Sunday comics page had become a laboratory for visual storytelling: recurring characters, panel layouts that guided eye movement, and sight gags timed through sequential frames. This strip exemplifies how newspaper comics developed the grammar that would define comic books—the very syntax of modern comics originated not in pulp magazines but in the competitive Sunday funny pages, where artists competed for readers' attention with increasingly inventive uses of the panel grid.