Kitty Khaki

This newspaper comic strip follows Kitty and her friend Bertie through wartime social situations. The strip employs the visual conventions established by early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags. Kitty's exaggerated concern about propriety—worrying over naval fraternization and the impact of joining the reserves—drives the humor across four rows of action. The final panel resolves the gag with physical comedy. As a Sunday page strip, *Kitty Khaki* participated in the newspaper comics boom that directly preceded and shaped the comic book medium, establishing the panel-and-balloon grammar that would become standard in American comics.