Mr. Wad Thought That He Was Ditching Titus, But Such Was Not the Case

This comic strip exemplifies the Sunday page format that flourished in American newspapers during the early twentieth century. The strip follows Mr. Wad through five panels of escalating physical comedy, each separated by clean borders and anchored by expository dialogue. Speech balloons carry the narrative forward while visual gags accumulate—a chase scene, a collision, a dramatic reveal. The recurring character Mr. Wad and his antagonist Titus rely on slapstick and situation humor common to newspaper comics of the era. The artist employs expressive line work and exaggerated poses to convey action and emotion. These Sunday strips, distributed to hundreds of papers nationwide, established the visual vocabulary—sequential panels, word-image integration, serialized characters—that would define the medium.