Kitty Khaki—Bertie's Crazy to See France

This Sunday comic strip follows Kitty Khaki and her suitor Bertie through four panels of romantic banter and physical comedy. The strip employs the standard visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated figure drawing, and a narrative arc built on romantic misunderstanding. Kitty deflects Bertie's patriotic appeals with flirtation and wit, while he grows increasingly flustered. Published during World War I, the strip mines topical humor from military service and wartime courtship, using the recurring character format that made newspaper comics a daily habit for millions of readers and a direct precursor to the comic book format that would emerge in the 1930s.