The Gumps

This Sunday page from *The Gumps* demonstrates the comic strip's domestic humor format: a man in formal dress repeatedly attempts yard work—mowing, raking, and tending soil—while flowers and plants persistently thwart his efforts, leading to comedic frustration and physical mishap. The strip employs panel-based sequential narrative with speech balloons and recurring characters in an everyday setting, establishing conventions central to newspaper comics. *The Gumps* exemplified the family-centered humor that populated Sunday supplements, where visual gags and character reaction drove narrative across multiple panels. The strip's reliance on recognizable domestic scenarios and physical comedy made it accessible to broad newspaper audiences, helping establish comics as a distinct narrative medium in American print culture.