Little Jimmy

A Sunday strip featuring Jimmy Thompson and his gang of neighborhood boys negotiating the loss of a quarter. The comic employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper strips: multiple panels arranged in tiers, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and a cast of recurring child characters rendered in Swinnerton's distinctive style. The humor centers on childhood concerns—lost coins and peer sympathy—played out through overlapping conversations and expressive cartooning. *Little Jimmy* ran as both a daily and Sunday feature, exemplifying how newspaper comics of the 1920s built narrative and character through sequential panels, a visual language that directly influenced the development of the comic book format.