The House of Mirth

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring two anthropomorphic mice in formal attire navigating domestic chaos. The strip demonstrates early sequential art conventions: consistent character design across eight panels, speech balloons advancing narrative action, and visual gags built from physical comedy and sight lines. The art style employs crosshatching and expressive linework typical of early-1900s newspaper comics. By this period, Sunday strips had become a major feature of American newspapers, establishing recurring character types and visual language that would define the medium. Artists working in this format developed the fundamental grammar of comics—panel composition, perspective, and character continuity—that influenced all subsequent graphic storytelling.