Mr. Twee Deedle

This Sunday comic strip by John Cruikle follows the mishaps of Mr. Twee Deedle and a mischievous dog through a sequence of escalating gags. The strip demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions becoming standard in early newspaper comics: numbered panels, speech balloons, and a protagonist whose routines anchor each installment. The page layout—mixing large central panels with smaller surrounding frames—was typical of Sunday supplements that ran these full-page narratives. By 1914, such strips had become essential to newspaper circulation, establishing the sequential art form and recurring-character model that would define comic books.