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Mr. Happihome by Walter WeHman

· April 18, 1906

Mr. Happihome by Walter WeHman
WeHman's domestic comedy strip follows Mr. Happihome through his daily routines—bidding farewell to his wife, visiting a baker, and returning home to find pies cooling on the window. The six-panel narrative employs sequential art conventions established in early newspaper comics: speech balloons, varied panel sizes, and a recurring central character navigating domestic mishaps. The strip's visual economy and sight gags typify early-1900s Sunday supplement humor, where family situations provided reliable material for the expanding newspaper comic pages that would evolve into the modern comic book format.

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