The Handy Man from Timbuctoo

This six-panel Sunday strip follows a barber's tall tale about a magical tiger from Africa. The narrative unfolds through sequential art with clear panel borders, speech balloons, and recurring characters—visual conventions that define early newspaper comics. A crowd gathers to witness increasingly absurd feats: the tiger juggles, performs acrobatics, and carries children on its back. The strip's humor derives from exaggeration and audience reaction rather than dialogue alone. Published during the era when Sunday supplements became primary vehicles for comic storytelling, this work exemplifies how newspaper artists developed panel-to-panel sequencing and character acting to sustain visual narratives across multiple frames.