The Wad Family

This Sunday comic strip follows the Wad family as they discover their bushes growing into currency overnight—a fantastic premise that builds gags across three panels. The strip employs the visual conventions established by early newspaper comics: recurring characters, sequential panel layout, speech balloons, and escalating action. By the 1920s, Sunday pages like this had become essential newspaper features, their formal innovations—panel borders, narrative flow through sequential images—laying the foundation for the comic book medium that would emerge in the following decade. The artist uses exaggerated linework and comic timing to sustain the joke across the strip's progression.