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Mr. Wad Thinks That Some People Have Got an Awful Nerve to be a Wearin' o' the Green Today!

· March 17, 1911

Mr. Wad Thinks That Some People Have Got an Awful Nerve to be a Wearin' o' the Green Today!
A six-panel Sunday comic strip built on St. Patrick's Day comedy. Mr. Wad, a cantankerous character in Scottish dress, encounters various people celebrating Irish traditions—each panel escalates his indignation through visual gags: a figure in green, a kilt-wearer being knocked down, a massive pile of potatoes, and escalating arguments with bystanders. The strip employs the standard newspaper comic grammar of the era: sequential panels, hand-lettered speech balloons, exaggerated character expressions, and slapstick action to carry the joke. The humor turns on ethnic costume and cultural celebration, typical of early 20th-century newspaper comics that mined daily life and holiday occasions for readers' amusement.

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