Kitty Khaki

This Sunday comic strip follows Kitty Khaki's romantic entanglement with a soldier named Cyril. The narrative unfolds across five panels using speech balloons and sequential art to guide readers through plot developments: Kitty and a friend discuss enlistment, soldiers arrive, Kitty chases after Cyril in a large landscape panel, and a final scene reveals romantic complications. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on recurring characters, visual continuity, and humor derived from social situations. Published during World War I, the strip reflects contemporary themes of military service and courtship. The artist employs cross-hatching and varied panel sizes—techniques central to the visual language newspapers established as the foundation for the emerging comic book medium.