How Do They Do It?

This Sunday comic page follows a newspaper editor through his weekly routine—from reviewing copy and managing staff to attending a grand jury session and recording deadlines. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual language: multiple panels arranged in grid form, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring characters navigating urban institutional settings. The humor emerges from practical workplace details and bureaucratic absurdities. Such strips populated Sunday papers and daily editions in the 1910s, establishing conventions that would define comic books: sequential panel narration, character continuity, and the marriage of image and text as equal narrative partners.