Monkeyshines of Marseleen

A six-panel Sunday strip following a monkey character's scheme to tar a neighbor's roof. The narrative unfolds through sequential action: the monkey contemplates the prank, prepares materials, applies tar to the roof, collects chickens as camouflage, observes the results, and celebrates completion. The strip employs the visual conventions now standard to newspaper comics—panel divisions, speech balloons, and exaggerated character design. Published in the early 20th century when the Sunday funny pages were establishing themselves as a distinct form, this strip demonstrates the emerging visual grammar of comics: clear causal sequences, recurring characters, and humor derived from physical action and escalation rather than text alone.