The Love of Lulu and Leander

A Sunday newspaper comic strip depicting the courtship of Lulu and Leander across six panels. The narrative unfolds through speech balloons and sequential art: Lulu greets Leander, he questions her affections, an accident with a brick occurs, and complications multiply with police and a judge. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in early 1900s comics—distinct panel borders, character expressions conveying emotion, and slapstick gags typical of the era. Such strips ran in newspapers nationwide and directly preceded the comic book format, establishing the panel-based grammar and recurring characters that would define the medium.