Lady Bountiful Starts a Race War

A newspaper Sunday comic strip in six panels following a wealthy woman's attempt to orchestrate a conflict among working-class groups. The strip employs visual gags and sequential narration typical of early 1900s comics: recurring character types, speech balloons, and exaggerated physical comedy. The narrative unfolds across panels with escalating action, culminating in slapstick chaos. The artwork uses ink line work and cross-hatching common to newspaper reproduction of the era. This strip exemplifies the Sunday supplement form that emerged in the 1890s as a primary venue for comic narratives—the direct precursor to the comic book format. Artists of this period established the visual language of comics: paneled layouts, word-picture integration, and character-driven storytelling that defined the medium's grammar.