Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye

This six-panel strip follows two fashionable women bidding farewell, their departure escalating into comic chaos as animals and crowds converge. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons, establishing cause-and-effect through visual continuity—techniques foundational to comic storytelling. The exaggerated proportions, cross-hatching, and character expressions derive from turn-of-the-century newspaper cartooning, where Sunday comics and daily strips developed the visual grammar that would shape the medium. Recurring characters, panel progression, and sight gags became the vocabulary through which early cartoonists told stories in time.