From the exhibition
The Tale of a Burro and Titus Wad!
· 1913

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring slapstick action and physical comedy. The narrative follows Mr. Wad and his burro through a series of escalating mishaps involving Titus Wade, with motion lines and exaggerated poses conveying rapid movement across multiple panels. The strip employs speech balloons to advance plot and character interaction—visual conventions that became foundational to comic strip storytelling. Such Sunday pages, alongside daily strips, established the sequential art vocabulary that would define the emerging comic book medium: consistent character design, panel-to-panel progression, and integrated text and image working in tandem.
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