Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye

This Sunday newspaper strip follows two female characters through an elaborate departure sequence. The narrative unfolds across six panels using word balloons and sequential art to track Lucy and Sophie's farewell to friends and family at what appears to be a seaside departure. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early 1900s comics: recurring characters, panel-to-panel continuity, and expressive figure work. Newspaper Sunday pages like this established the formal vocabulary of comic art—bordered panels, speech integration, and serialized storytelling—that would become foundational to comic books. Artists working in daily and Sunday strips invented the grammar later codified in the medium.