Groucho the Monk

This Sunday strip follows Groucho, a robed monk character whose inquisitive nature drives the narrative across eight panels. The strip demonstrates early comics conventions: sequential panel layout, speech balloons advancing plot, and physical comedy. Groucho's questioning leads him from a room to the streets, where his curiosity about the Smith family's business and a broken drum escalates into public disruption. The final panels show townspeople calling for his arrest as he holds a sign advertising his antics. The strip exemplifies how early newspaper comics used recurring characters and sight gags to build humor across multiple frames—visual storytelling methods that would become foundational to the medium.