Mr. Wad Takes His Cousin to the Chicken Show

This Sunday strip follows Mr. Wad and his cousin 'Tight' Wad to a poultry exhibition, where competitive roosters and their handlers create slapstick chaos. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and escalating physical gags. A rooster's frenzied crowing—rendered as repetitive "cut-cut-cut-aw-cut" lettering—drives the action across panels, culminating in Tight Wad's comedic escape with a stolen bird. The artist captures motion through exaggerated postures and dense cross-hatching, techniques pioneered in the dailies and Sunday pages that established the medium's foundational language before comic books as a format existed.