From the exhibition
Laughterville
· January 25, 1925

This Sunday page follows Mr. Kibosh's Clinker through six self-contained gags, each framed in its own compartment with title and caption. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of 1920s newspaper comics: multiple panels per page, speech balloons, recurring character types, and illustrated narrative sequences. Each vignette builds a separate joke—from domestic mishaps to slapstick encounters—establishing the episodic structure that defined the Sunday funnies. The artist uses varied panel shapes and sizes to pace the comedy, a compositional strategy central to how newspaper strips evolved into the language of comic books themselves.
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