Mr. Happihome by Walter Wellman

A domestic comedy strip following the domestic misadventures of Mr. Happihome and his wife. In this episode, a furniture purchase gone wrong spirals into marital discord: he objects to her expensive tastes, she counters with complaints about his ruined chair, and the sequence ends with her declaring she prefers checking to his company. Wellman employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the 1890s—distinct rectangular panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—to structure gags around marriage and consumer spending. The strip exemplifies how Sunday newspaper comics became a laboratory for visual narrative, using panel progression and dialogue to sustain comedic timing across multiple frames.