The House of Mirth

This Sunday comic strip follows a cast of characters in chaotic domestic scenes filled with slapstick gags and physical comedy. The narrative moves fluidly across six panels, using speech balloons and sequential action to tell the story of pandemonium at home—guests arrive, children run wild, performers in striped costumes create mayhem, and adults attempt to maintain order. The artist employs the visual conventions that had emerged in early newspaper comics: distinct panel borders, varied camera angles, and expressive line work to convey motion and emotion. By the early 1900s, the Sunday newspaper page had become a laboratory for comic storytelling, where artists developed the panel-based narrative language that would define the medium for generations.