Little Jimmy

Jimmy and a companion negotiate a monetary exchange in this daily strip sequence. The humor turns on Jimmy's claim to possess a quarter—a sum the other character doubts—followed by a setup and punchline about introducing someone named "Mah Frien' Misto Gim Thomson" and his "use bofe yo' eyes." The strip employs the visual conventions that became standard in newspaper comics: multiple panels showing progression of action and dialogue, speech balloons capturing character voices, and recurring child protagonists in domestic situations. By the 1920s, dailies like this one had established the grammar of sequential art that would anchor the comic book medium emerging in the following decades.