The House of Mirth

This Sunday strip follows a well-dressed gentleman through the crowded, chaotic "House of Mirth"—a performance venue where acrobats, clowns, and performers tumble across multiple panels. The narrative flows left to right and top to bottom, with recurring characters and escalating comic mayhem. Speech balloons anchor each moment, while the dense staging and overlapping figures create visual rhythm across six panels. Drawn in the graphic tradition of early 1900s newspaper comics, the strip demonstrates the panel-based sequential art that emerged from vaudeville culture and shaped comic strip language: distinct frames, expressive caricature, slapstick gags, and typography as part of visual composition.