The Misadventures of Sammy Small

This Sunday comic strip follows young Sammy Small through a domestic mishap: his mother's new spring bonnet becomes the vehicle for a scheme to swap her milliner's box with neighbor Nora's identical one. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics—sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring child protagonist, and sight gags built on physical comedy. The six-panel layout was typical of Sunday humor pages that introduced readers to the grammar of sequential storytelling. Such strips appeared in newspapers nationwide and directly influenced the comic books that would follow, establishing how artists could narrate stories through image and text.