Kitty Khaki—The Private Was Inquisitive

A Sunday comic strip featuring a feline soldier in military uniform surrounded by recruits and officers. The central character, Kitty Khaki, demonstrates different angles of the face—right profile, left profile, and frontal view—while a sergeant issues orders in a caption box. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics: recurring character, speech balloons, sequential panels showing exaggerated movement and expression, and anthropomorphic humor. Animals in military dress were popular subjects during World War I, when newspaper comics provided both entertainment and patriotic messaging to American readers. This strip exemplifies how the Sunday comics page became a laboratory for visual storytelling techniques that would define the emerging medium.