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How Do They Do It?

· May 23, 1917

How Do They Do It?
A Sunday comic strip featuring Gulliver visiting the Land of Pygmies. The strip unfolds across five panels, following a familiar vaudeville structure: the protagonist's wonder at miniature surroundings, his nostalgic comparison to childhood toys, and his regret at outgrowing such pleasures. The final panel delivers the reveal—a parade of tiny vehicles crossing an American highway, answered by Gulliver's astonished question: "How do they do it?" The strip employs panel sequences and speech balloons to build narrative momentum and visual gag payoff, techniques central to newspaper comic development in the early twentieth century.

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