Indoor Sports

Tad Dorgan's *Indoor Sports* panel series mined humor from everyday office life and urban leisure. Here, an executive endures complaints from staff while a subordinate shines his shoes—the visual joke hinging on the gap between corporate pretense and workplace reality. Dorgan's crisp line work and economical panel design exemplify the newspaper comic strip's visual language: multiple speech balloons, varied figure poses, and crowded domestic space. The recurring cast and topical situations made *Indoor Sports* a fixture of the Sunday funny pages, where Dorgan's sardonic view of modern manners influenced generations of cartoonists working in newspapers and the comic books that evolved from them.