Sunday Comic Strip, September 1925

This four-panel Sunday strip demonstrates the visual conventions that emerged from newspaper comics in the 1920s: recurring child characters, animals as supporting cast, speech balloons anchoring narrative flow, and sequential panels that advance a gag. The strip moves from the opening setup—a child imitating a cat's meow—through escalating comic chaos as other children and a cat respond to the sound. The drawing style, with its loose pen work and expressive line, typifies the era when newspaper comic pages were the primary mass medium for sequential art, establishing the formal grammar that would define the comic book medium.