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Little Jimmy

· March 23, 1913

Little Jimmy
This Sunday strip follows Jimmy and his companions through a series of sight gags and physical comedy set among Navajo figures. The narrative unfolds across multiple tiers, employing the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring cast of child characters. The strip's layout demonstrates the formal innovations of the Sunday page format—larger panels for establishing scenes, smaller insets for close reactions, and varied compositions to pace the action. Jimmy's adventures were typical of early-twentieth-century newspaper fare, relying on slapstick, exaggerated expressions, and the graphic shorthand that made newspaper strips accessible to mass audiences and eventually influenced the structure of comic books.

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