H. E. Butzin After Trout!

A four-panel fishing comedy strip by H. E. Butzin. The narrative follows a fisherman's escalating misadventures: he attempts to catch a trout using unconventional methods, accidentally hooks himself, gets pulled into the water, and ends in a confrontation with what appears to be an oversized fish. Butzin employs the standard visual conventions of early newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, exaggerated action lines, and slapstick humor. The strip exemplifies the humor genre that flourished in Sunday comics sections of the early 1900s, when talented cartoonists developed the visual language that would become foundational to comic books.