Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye

This seven-panel Sunday strip follows two women through an extended farewell at a doorway, each panel capturing a new false start to their parting. The humor lies in the repetition of goodbyes—both characters keep finding reasons to linger, extending conversations and goodbyes across the sequence. Speech balloons carry their dialogue and reactions as they move through the door frame, with recurring visual elements anchoring the gag. The strip exemplifies early-twentieth-century newspaper comic conventions: multiple panels in sequence building a single joke, speech balloons carrying character voices, and domestic comedy drawn from ordinary social situations. The sequential arrangement and visual repetition became foundational techniques in comic strip storytelling, establishing how artists could use panel progression to pace humor and develop narrative through incremental image repetition.