Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye

This six-panel Sunday comic strip follows two fashionable women through an elaborate farewell scene, complete with gentleman callers in top hats and a crowd of onlookers. The narrative unfolds sequentially across panels, using speech balloons to convey dialogue and reactions. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: recurring characters, expressive line work, and careful panel composition that guides the reader's eye through the story. By the early 1900s, newspaper Sunday supplements had become the primary venue for sequential narrative art, establishing the formal vocabulary—panels, balloons, character consistency—that would define the comic book medium for decades to come.