Little Sammy Sneeze

This Sunday strip follows a recurring character through six panels of visual comedy: a small boy's uncontrollable sneeze disrupts a domestic scene, sending figures and objects flying. The artist uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and exaggerated motion lines to build comedic momentum across the page. *Little Sammy Sneeze* was among the earliest newspaper comic strips to establish a consistent protagonist and use the multi-panel format to develop a gag. The strip appeared in Sunday supplements during the formative period when newspapers recognized comics as a distinct visual medium, establishing conventions—panel borders, word balloons, character recognition—that would define twentieth-century comics and eventually the comic book format itself.