Jimmy—He Becomes Envious

This Sunday newspaper strip follows young Jimmy through a sequence of escalating jealousy. When a visitor brings expensive gifts and attention, Jimmy's envy grows until he disrupts dinner, leading adults to address his behavior directly. The strip employs the visual vocabulary now standard to comics: numbered panels, speech balloons, recurring child protagonist, and sequential narrative unfolding across a grid. By 1908, such Sunday pages were establishing the formal language that would define comic strips and eventually comic books—a grammar of layout, lettering, and character continuity that newspapers had begun perfecting over the previous two decades.