Keeping Up with the Joneses

A Sunday comic strip following Clarice and Aloysius as they hire a mountain guide to scale what they believe is the Matterhorn. The strip's humor relies on visual gags across five panels: the guide's dubious credentials, the couple's escalating panic on the climb, and the reveal that they've conquered a modest hill. The exaggerated proportions, dynamic action lines, and sequential panel layout exemplify early newspaper comics' visual vocabulary. *Keeping Up with the Joneses* ran as both daily and Sunday strips, establishing the recurring-character format that became foundational to comic strip storytelling and eventually the comic book medium itself.