Mr. and Mrs.

This Sunday page by Briggs follows a married couple through a domestic comedy of errors: he attempts to surprise her with theater tickets, but a series of miscommunications and interruptions—a fire, a visitor, misread time—derail each plan. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that defined early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in familiar settings, and physical comedy rendered through body language and facial expression. *Mr. and Mrs.* exemplifies the newspaper comic strip as a narrative form, where gag-driven plots unfold across multiple panels, building toward a punchline. The strip's domestic focus reflected the popular taste of the 1920s for humor drawn from everyday married life, establishing a genre that would persist throughout comic strip history.