Kernel Cootie

This Sunday strip follows Kernel Cootie's attempt to reach a military officer by telephone, escalating from a simple request into an absurdist chain of miscommunication. Each panel multiplies the chaos: operators misunderstand, soldiers relay garbled messages, and a formal dinner devolves into confusion as the name "Abraham Lincoln" surfaces inexplicably. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of 1920s newspaper comics—multiple panels with varied compositions, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and exaggerated expressions conveying frustration. Kernel Cootie exemplifies the everyday humor that populated the Sunday funny pages, where recurring military and civilian characters navigated bureaucratic tangles through slapstick logic.