Who Would Ever Have Thought It of Old 'Tight'?

A Sunday comic strip by Gale featuring the recurring character Mr. Wad, a miserly figure observing rain from indoors. The five-panel sequence uses sequential art conventions—consistent character design, speech balloons, and visual progression—to deliver its humor through escalating circumstance rather than dialogue alone. Wad's complaint about the rain leads to observations about umbrellas and financial matters, culminating in a financial column byline. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on character types and domestic situations, the visual grammar that would define the medium: panels establishing setting, close framings showing reaction, and dialogue advanced across sequences. Such Sunday pages and their daily counterparts formed the laboratory where comic art developed before comic books emerged as a distinct format.