The 'Hurry Up' New Yorker No. 20—When He Is Fast Asleep

By Maurice Ketten, this Sunday comic strip follows a hurried New Yorker's frantic dream sequence. John rushes to bed, then enters a series of surreal nocturnal adventures—dashing through cityscapes, riding in a boat, and racing across dream-logic landscapes—before waking in a panic. The strip demonstrates early newspaper comics' visual vocabulary: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated character movement, and recurring protagonist used to sustain reader interest across a serialized narrative. The six-panel layout and dynamic linework typify the Sunday supplements that established comic art as a distinct medium separate from newspaper illustration.