Mufti the Monk

A nine-panel Sunday comic by F. Carolus Mager featuring Mufti the Monk, a character who populated newspapers during the early 1900s. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined the newspaper comic page: discrete rectangular panels arranged in rows, speech balloons indicating dialogue, and sequential action across frames. Here Mufti pursues revenge aboard a boat, with gags driven by sight comedy and escalating physical mishap. The strip demonstrates how artists of this era constructed narrative through panel layout and character interaction—techniques foundational to comic storytelling. Newspaper comics of this period served as laboratories for visual language that would shape the comic book medium when it emerged in the 1930s.