Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye

This comic strip follows two women through a seaside farewell, told across six panels. The narrative unfolds through sequential art: Lucy and Sophie stand at a pier with luggage, embrace, wade into rising water, appear submerged amid wavy lines, and finally wave from a boat. Speech balloons carry dialogue throughout. The strip demonstrates early newspaper comics' visual conventions—consistent characters across panels, expressive line work, and water rendered as repeating wave patterns. By the early 1900s, the Sunday newspaper page had become a laboratory for graphic storytelling, where artists developed the formal language of comics: panel layout, closure between frames, and character continuity that would define the medium.