Keeping Up with the Joneses

This Sunday strip by Pop Momand follows the Jones family through six panels of domestic comedy. The narrative arc—from Mr. Jones's financial boasting to his wife's escalating spending—unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons and sight gags. The strip exemplifies the visual conventions that emerged in early newspaper comics: recurring characters in domestic settings, panel-to-panel progression, and humor derived from social observation. Strips like this populated the Sunday funnies and daily pages, establishing the visual language and narrative structures that would define the comic book medium when reprinted in collected form.