Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye

This six-panel strip follows two characters boarding a streetcar labeled "Farewell Avenue." The narrative progresses from initial farewells through increasingly crowded boarding scenes, culminating in a packed final panel where the vehicle strains under the weight of well-wishers. The humor derives from the escalating absurdity—what begins as a simple goodbye transforms into a chaotic mob scene. The strip employs sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters to tell its joke, visual conventions that newspapers had been refining since the 1890s. By 1905, the Sunday comic page had become a standard feature in American papers, establishing the visual and narrative grammar that would define twentieth-century comics.