The Love of Lulu and Leander

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring recurring characters Lulu and Leander at a dinner table with family and guests. The strip uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and exaggerated facial expressions to develop comedic situations across eight frames. Domestic humor—forgotten anniversaries, romantic mishaps, family teasing—drives the narrative. The artist employs heavy black ink work and expressive caricature typical of early 1900s newspaper comics. This strip exemplifies the visual vocabulary that newspaper Sunday pages established: the panel grid, integrated text and image, and serialized character-based humor that would become foundational to comic book form.