The Love of Lulu and Leander

This six-panel Sunday comic strip follows the courtship of Lulu and Leander through exaggerated physical comedy and romantic misadventure. The narrative unfolds sequentially across panels: Leander introduces Lulu to his young protégé, boasts of the boy's strength, Lulu flirts and teases, domestic chaos erupts, and reconciliation follows. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics—bordered panels, speech balloons, anthropomorphic caricature, and recurring characters—techniques pioneered in the 1890s Sunday supplements. The caricatural style, rapid gag structure, and dependence on sequence rather than single-panel humor typify the comic strips that preceded and directly inspired the comic book format.