Mr. Wad

This Sunday strip follows Mr. Wad, a con artist who attempts to swindle a duck into a fake hunting outfit scheme. Over three hours, the elaborate con collapses as the duck pursues him on foot—a simple but effective gag built through sequential panels and escalating action. The strip uses speech balloons, sight gags, and the repeated visual motif of rapid movement to drive comedy. By 1911, such newspaper comics had become the primary laboratory for visual storytelling, where artists developed the formal language of panels, word balloons, and recurring characters that would define the medium for decades.