Kitty Khaki

A Sunday newspaper strip featuring a female character in military dress, surrounded by admiring soldiers in a landscape of cypress trees and military camps. The comic employs the visual conventions established by earlier newspaper strips: multiple panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sequential action. The humor turns on the character's previous work at a glove counter—a civilian detail now displaced by wartime circumstances. Published during America's involvement in World War I, strips like this channeled patriotic themes through the newspaper comics pages, where artists had developed the panel-based grammar and character-driven narratives that would define the emerging medium of comic books.