Joe and Asbestos

A Sunday strip by Ken Kling featuring Joe and his animal companion Asbestos navigating domestic mishaps and financial troubles. The narrative unfolds across six panels: Joe cashes a check for $100, attempts to hide money in the pantry, and watches as his scheme unravels through a series of slapstick encounters. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined 1920s newspaper comics—sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated body language, and recurring characters—techniques developed by cartoonists working in the Sunday funny pages who established the visual language that would become foundational to the medium.