From the exhibition
Jimmy—He Makes 10c.
· September 19, 1909

This Sunday strip follows young Jimmy's scheme to earn a dime, unfolding across ten panels with rapid-fire gags and sight comedy. The narrative moves fluidly through Jimmy's interactions with adults, a poodle, and street settings, employing the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: speech balloons, sequential panel layout, and recurring character types. The strip demonstrates how Sunday pages functioned as vehicles for extended narrative comedy rather than single gags, establishing patterns that would influence comic strip and eventually comic book storytelling for decades to come.
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