Howson Lott's Cousin Willie Flies!

A six-panel Sunday strip following Howson Lott and his cousin Willie's adventure with a homemade airplane. The narrative unfolds sequentially: Lott spots Willie attempting flight, watches as the contraption launches, and follows the ensuing chaos as the kite-like device crashes near a cottage. The final panels capture Willie's tumble and Lott's offer to teach practical jokes. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual vocabulary—sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring characters in everyday scenarios rendered in period pen-and-ink style. Sunday pages like this were the primary format for comic storytelling before the comic book anthology emerged, establishing the narrative and graphic conventions that would define the medium.