Lady Bountiful & Co.

This Sunday comic strip follows a wealthy woman and her household staff through domestic mishaps and moral lessons. The narrative unfolds across six panels using speech balloons and sequential action—visual conventions that define newspaper comics. The broad slapstick humor, recurring cast of characters, and episodic structure typify early 1900s Sunday pages. These strips, published in newspapers nationwide, established the visual grammar of comics: panel borders, word balloons, and expressive cartooning that would become the foundation of the medium. The domestic comedy genre remained popular throughout the era, offering working- and middle-class readers humor centered on household management and social interaction.