How You Felt

This single-panel comic employs the visual language that emerged from newspaper Sunday supplements in the early 1900s: a bordered frame, a captioned narrative moment, and exaggerated figure work typical of the era's comic drawing style. The composition shows a man displaying an ornately patterned garment to a well-dressed figure, with text establishing the joke's setup and punchline at top and bottom. Such captioned single panels appeared alongside serialized strips in the Sunday papers, helping establish the conventions—recurring characters, speech balloons, sequential narrative—that would define the emerging comic-strip form and eventually lead to the comic book format of the 1930s onward.