Rhymo the Monk

This Sunday strip follows Rhymo, a dog character, and his human keeper through four sequential panels that establish a visual and narrative chain. The format—multiple equal panels across the page with speech balloons and captions—reflects the emerging newspaper comic vocabulary of the early 1900s. The gag progresses from the keeper calling Rex a knave, to promising a sausage as incentive, to Rhymo's pleased reaction, and finally to the punchline involving a failed photograph. The strip demonstrates how newspapers deployed comic narratives with established characters, recurring situations, and escalating humor to entertain readers across the Sunday pages.