Kitty Khaki

A Sunday comic strip by Hughes satirizing military recruitment during World War I. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics: multiple panels with speech balloons, recurring character types, and exaggerated drawing styles to convey gags. A recruiter attempts to convince a young woman to join a "legion of sacrifice," but her objections mount—dependency on parental support, hairdressing concerns, and lack of suitable employment. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics used humor to comment on contemporary events, drawing readers through character interaction and situational comedy rather than sequential action. These Sunday pages and their daily counterparts formed the commercial and artistic foundation from which the modern comic book would emerge.