Herr Spiegleburger Vadt Der Ghost

This German-language comic strip follows a character encountering a ghost in his home. Across six panels, the protagonist moves through rooms, reacts with alarm, and ultimately flees—a narrative arc told entirely through sequential art and speech balloons. The strip employs the visual conventions that define early newspaper comics: consistent character design, panel borders that organize time and space, and dialogue that advances the story. The exaggerated expressions and physical comedy typical of turn-of-the-century humor strips are evident throughout. German dailies and Sunday supplements published such strips alongside their American counterparts, establishing the visual grammar—recurring characters, emotional expressiveness, and panel-to-panel continuity—that would become foundational to the medium.