Loony Literature

This Sunday strip follows De Currency, a stick-figure protagonist with a circular body, through six absurdist episodes riffing on literary titles. Each panel reinterprets familiar works—*Ivanhoe*, *The Valiant*, *Gulliver's Travels*—by literalizing their plots into visual gags. De Currency tumbles through clouds, jousts a cow, bends toward a privy, dodges cannon fire, and feeds himself to a giant mouth labeled "The Story of the Cannibal." The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: sequential panels with caption-driven narrative, exaggerated stick-figure action, and puns anchoring the humor. Published during the formative years when Sunday comics expanded from single-panel gags into multi-panel narratives, *Loony Literature* demonstrates how artists were learning to use panel sequence and visual metaphor to sustain extended jokes across a page.