Keeping Up with the Joneses

This Sunday page follows a family's misadventures in competitive leisure and sport. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons advancing a narrative gag across six frames. The humor derives from character mishaps—here, a shooting expedition goes comically wrong—typical of the physical comedy favored in newspaper strips of this era. *Keeping Up with the Joneses* ran as both a daily and Sunday feature, exemplifying how the newspaper comic strip became the primary vehicle for developing recurring characters and visual storytelling. The strip's popularity helped establish the format that would eventually become the comic book industry.