The Handy Man, Foxy Grandpa & The Tiger

This Sunday page strips exemplify the visual vocabulary that emerged from newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring characters, and physical comedy. *The Handy Man* and *Foxy Grandpa* feature slapstick centered on a central joke—here, boys playing pranks on adults with a bell and hose. The artist employs dynamic linework and cross-hatching to convey motion and establish spatial depth across panels. Characters repeat weekly in newspapers, creating the continuity that would later define comic books. These strips demonstrate how the Sunday pages functioned as testing grounds for narrative structure, character development, and visual storytelling that shaped the medium's formal language.