Mr. Wad Sure Has One Awful Time With That Cousin of His

A Sunday comic strip in which Mr. Wad's visiting cousin Titus creates chaos at a polo match. The strip unfolds across five panels, each containing detailed scene-setting and overlapping dialogue balloons. The cousin's aggressive behavior—first loudly narrating the match, then drawing a knife at dinner—drives the humor through escalating mishap. The visual grammar here was still developing: panels vary in size, speech balloons cluster densely, and the artist uses crosshatching for shading. By the 1910s, newspaper comics had become the testing ground for sequential art conventions that would define the medium. This strip demonstrates the period's reliance on character types and situational comedy to fill Sunday pages alongside serialized narratives.