Mr. Wad Meets the Only Survivor of the Battle of New Year's!

A Sunday comic strip featuring Mr. Wad, a rotund character in formal dress and top hat, encountering a bedraggled survivor of New Year's celebrations. Across eight panels, the strip employs sequential visual storytelling with speech balloons to develop its gag: Mr. Wad's repeated assumption that the survivor drank too much, countered by increasingly exasperated denials. The strip's visual vocabulary—panel borders, expressive line work, and character positioning—reflects the vocabulary established by newspaper comics in the early 1900s. Sunday pages like this one helped establish the comic strip as a distinct art form before comic books as a medium existed.