Old Tight Wad Is Sure the Original Saving Kid

A Sunday strip following the misadventures of Titus, a penny-pinching character whose stinginess backfires into slapstick chaos. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary emerging in early newspaper comics: multiple rectangular panels advancing narrative, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and a recurring cast of characters. By 1913, Sunday comic pages had become central to newspaper circulation wars, establishing the formal grammar that would define comics for decades. Artists developed sequential storytelling techniques here that would later structure comic books, from panel transitions to sight gags built across multiple frames.