H. E. Butzin — After Venison!

A hunter's comic misadventure unfolds across four panels as he pursues antlers for a stag party. Butzin uses sequential storytelling to build the gag: the protagonist spots game, attempts the hunt, encounters a charging buck, and flees with exaggerated physical comedy. The strip employs the visual vocabulary emerging from newspaper comics of the era—multiple panels advancing a narrative, expressive linework conveying motion and emotion, speech balloons carrying dialogue and internal monologue. The Sunday page format allowed cartoonists to develop character-driven humor across larger layouts, establishing conventions that would define American comic strips and eventually comic books.