Makin' B'lieve

This Sunday strip by Dwiggins follows children playing firefighter with a toy engine. The three-panel sequence tracks their imaginative game: adults encourage the play, the kids race to an imaginary fire with props and sound effects, and chaos erupts when their make-believe intersects reality—the "burning house" tips over. Dwiggins uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and comic timing to chronicle a single joke across a brief narrative arc. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor: physical comedy, child characters, and the collision between fantasy and consequence. Such strips populated Sunday funny pages and established visual conventions that became foundational to comics as a medium.