Little Sammy Sneeze

This Sunday page follows the wordless comic formula that made *Little Sammy Sneeze* a newspaper sensation: a child's violent sneeze triggers an escalating chain of physical chaos across six panels. The artist uses sequential panel layout, close-ups, and exaggerated action lines to convey motion and consequence without text. Published in the *New York Herald*, the strip exemplified the visual storytelling innovations of early newspaper comics—recurring characters, panel-to-panel narrative flow, and sight gags that required no dialogue. The strip ran 1904–1906 and established templates for physical comedy and sequential art that influenced comic strips and later comic books.