From the exhibition
The Jungle Twins—Mrs. Hippoy Easter Bonnet
· April 23, 1905

This Sunday comic strip follows the Jungle Twins and their guardian Mrs. Hippoy through an escalating Easter bonnet crisis. The six-panel narrative uses sequential art to build comedy: each panel advances the plot as the children's mischief with a decorative hat creates chaos. Speech balloons carry dialogue and reaction, while exaggerated character expressions and body language convey physical comedy. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual language—panels arranged in grid form, recurring characters in domestic settings, and slapstick humor drawn from simple props. Sunday color comics like this appeared in newspapers nationwide and established conventions that would define the medium: episodic storytelling, character consistency, and visual gags that depend on sequential image arrangement rather than text alone.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain