Minute Movies

This Sunday strip by Wheelan presents two complete stories in miniature form, each told across multiple panels with overlapping dialogue and visual gags. The upper narrative follows Douglas Brush, a society painter, through a romantic complication; the lower strip depicts a domestic scene involving a landlord and tenant dispute. The cartoonist employs the visual vocabulary that emerged in early newspaper comics: sequential panels with defined borders, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and recurring character types drawn in a brisk, economical line. Distributed as a Sunday supplement feature, *Minute Movies* typified how newspaper comics of the 1920s adapted theatrical comedy and domestic humor into compact narrative forms, training millions of readers in the grammar of sequential art that would define the comic book medium.