Makin' B'lieve by Dwiggins

A six-panel Sunday comic strip featuring a cast of exaggerated characters in a game of political theater. The narrative moves from a child's innocent proposal to play "Suffragette" through escalating chaos—a mock debate, demands for voting rights, and physical mayhem that ends with a woman striking a man with a rolling pin. Dwiggins employs the visual vocabulary emerging from newspaper comics: distinct panel borders, sequential action, speech balloons, and recurring characters. The strip's humor depends on rapid scene shifts and visual gags typical of the Sunday pages, which by 1912 had become the laboratory where comic strip conventions took shape before influencing the printed comic book.