Mr. and Mrs.

This Sunday comic strip by Briggs follows a husband making Christmas greetings to friends and family across the city. The narrative unfolds through twelve panels arranged in a grid, using sequential art conventions—panel borders, speech balloons, and recurring characters—that were becoming standardized in newspaper comics of the early 1920s. The gag relies on repetition and variation: Mr. attempts to wish everyone a merry Christmas but encounters obstacles and interruptions. The domestic humor and focus on conjugal life reflect the strip's appeal to general newspaper audiences. By this period, the Sunday page had become a major vehicle for comic art, with artists like Briggs developing visual storytelling techniques that would influence the medium for decades.