Little Pal—He's Discovered!

This four-panel Sunday strip follows a child's discovery of fire. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons—visual conventions inherited from 19th-century comics and refined in early newspaper strips. The child progresses from innocent play to striking a match, then reports the discovery to adults with genuine excitement. The final panel shows the predictable adult response: confiscation and scolding. The strip's economy of line and use of negative space typify the pen-and-ink style of 1910s newspaper comics, where recurring child characters like this "Little Pal" entertained readers across the Sunday pages that helped establish the visual language of sequential art.