Winsome Willie's Charge Up San Juan Hill

This Sunday comic strip follows Winsome Willie and Lady Bountiful as they lead a charge up San Juan Hill, a sequence that plays out across six panels with escalating physical comedy. The strip employs the visual conventions pioneered in newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring child characters, and slapstick action that builds toward a climactic payoff. The artist uses scale and perspective to create depth and momentum, particularly in the lower panels where a large barrel becomes the focal point of the gag. Such strips appeared in Sunday newspaper supplements in the early 1900s, establishing the grammar and pacing that would define comic strips and eventually comic books—multiple panels advancing a narrative, dialogue integrated with image, and humor built through visual staging and timing.