Kitty Khaki — She Gets "Private" Information

This comic strip follows Kitty Khaki, a character navigating wartime social scenes. The narrative flows across six panels, using speech balloons and sequential art to build a gag centered on military terminology and romantic mishaps. Hughes employs exaggerated physical comedy—a fishing mishap provides the climactic visual punchline—typical of newspaper Sunday comics of the 1910s. The strip's recurring character and continuous narrative exemplify how newspaper comics developed the visual language of panel progression and dialogue integration that would become foundational to comic book storytelling. The dotted dress and caricatured features reflect period illustration conventions.