From the exhibition
The Gumps
· Early 20th century
This Sunday page from *The Gumps* showcases the strip's domestic comedy formula: Andy and Min navigate household crises through slapstick and verbal wit. The strip's visual storytelling employs the full vocabulary of newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters in continuous narrative. Published daily and Sunday in hundreds of papers, *The Gumps* exemplified how serialized strips became America's most widely distributed entertainment form. The strip's multi-panel structure and sight gags influenced the visual grammar that comic books would inherit and formalize in the 1930s and beyond.
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