Sunday Comic Strip, September 30, 1925

This four-panel Sunday strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined newspaper comics in the 1920s: regular panel borders, speech balloons containing dialogue, and a sequence of gags built around domestic situations with recurring child characters. The artist uses progressive staging to develop narrative: children interact with adults, engage in play, and encounter consequences—the basic comic structure that made strips popular entertainment. Sunday pages like this one filled newspaper supplements, establishing comics as a distinct medium separate from editorial cartoons. The consistent character design and narrative flow across panels became the foundation of what would evolve into the comic book format by the 1930s.