Sherlocko: The Great Lighthouse Mystery

This Sunday strip by Gus Mager features rapid physical comedy across multiple panels, with characters in exaggerated poses chasing and colliding through a lighthouse setting. Speech balloons carry plot exposition alongside visual gags—a hallmark of newspaper comics that bridged newspaper illustration and sequential narrative. The strip's layout uses panel divisions to control pacing and timing, techniques pioneered in early 1920s comic strips. Recurring detective characters and slapstick plotting were standard fare in dailies and Sundays, formats that established visual storytelling conventions later foundational to comic books.