Being As This Is Inauguration Day We'll Have a Few Politics Today!

This Sunday strip demonstrates the newspaper comic's role as topical commentary during Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. The six-panel layout uses sequential art to build gags around political figures and public ceremony, with speech balloons advancing both plot and humor. The caricatured figures and exaggerated proportions typify early 1910s cartooning style. By this period, the Sunday funnies had established core conventions—numbered panels, recurring characters, sight gags tied to current events—that would become foundational to comic strip and eventually comic book language. Political satire through visual comedy was a staple of newspaper comics, allowing artists to address national moments through entertainment.