Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows Major Ozone's attempt to spend a night atop a chimney as part of his fresh air campaign. When the ladder breaks, he must navigate down the narrow chimney stack using progressively desperate methods across six panels. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring character, and physical comedy escalating through the narrative. Published in the Sunday newspaper pages that preceded the comic book, this strip demonstrates how newspapers serialized humorous narratives through sequential art, establishing the visual grammar and storytelling techniques that would become foundational to the medium.