Titus Wad Has Chicken for Lunch

A five-panel gag strip following the misadventures of Titus Wad, a thin, animated character who attempts to enjoy a simple meal. The strip demonstrates the standard newspaper comic vocabulary of the 1920s: sequential panels with hand-lettered dialogue balloons, exaggerated line work, and physical comedy escalating across panels. Each frame advances the joke through visual staging and character reaction. This strip typifies the Sunday supplement format that served as the direct predecessor to the comic book, establishing the recurring character and episodic humor structure that would define the medium. The artist employs the economic drawing style and ink techniques characteristic of daily and weekly newspaper production during comics' foundational era.