I Always Say: (Sez Gracie Allen)

Gracie Allen, half of the comedy team Burns and Allen, lent her name and persona to this humor strip. The format—a brief joke framed by a celebrity endorsement—was typical of Sunday newspaper comics during the Golden Age. Allen's gag about golf handicaps relies on character-based humor: her husband George Porgie can't play well *because* he's too smart. The simple line style and speech balloons reflect the commercial comic strip aesthetic of the era, when newspapers serialized humor strips six or seven days a week. These strips, along with adventure serials, established the visual language—panel borders, word balloons, recurring characters—that would define the comic book medium.