From the exhibition
Laughterville
· June 28, 1925

This Sunday newspaper page assembles a variety of humor strips and gag panels—a common format for early comic sections. Multiple strips share the page: *The Dash Heroine* and *Why Walters Die Young* deploy character-driven comedy across sequential panels, while single-panel jokes and illustrated verses fill margins. The layout demonstrates how newspapers organized humor content before comic books emerged as a distinct medium. Speech balloons, repeated characters, and panel-to-panel narrative flow show the visual conventions that would define comics. These pages were the primary venue for sequential art in the 1920s, reaching mass audiences through daily and Sunday editions.
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