Johnny Quack and the Van Cluck Twins

This Sunday comic strip demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions that emerged in early newspaper comics. The narrative unfolds across two sequences—'Stumped' and 'Fly Time'—using sequential panels with speech balloons to advance the plot. Johnny Quack, the anthropomorphic duck protagonist, encounters the Van Cluck twins in a series of escalating physical gags. The strip employs slapstick humor typical of the era, with exaggerated poses and comic violence rendered in pen-and-ink line work. By 1909, the Sunday newspaper comic had become a vehicle for establishing recurring characters and developing narrative through panel-to-panel progression, visual conventions that would form the foundation of comic book art.