Mr. Happihome

Walter Wellman's *Mr. Happihome* follows a husband's domestic misadventures through six sequential panels. A woman demands a new hat; he agrees to buy one himself, only to purchase increasingly absurd alternatives—a flat shape, then bananas as headwear. The strip relies on visual gags and escalating chaos, with characters rendered in period costume and exaggerated proportions. Speech balloons drive the narrative from panel to panel, establishing the visual conventions that would define the Sunday newspaper comic. By 1906, such strips occupied prime real estate in Sunday editions, establishing recurring characters and sight-gags as mass entertainment alongside the serious news surrounding them.