Mutt and Jeff — "With Mutt in New York: He Collides with a Bookie"

Seven horizontal panels follow the lanky, top-hatted Mutt careening through a New York sidewalk collision with a stranger, fists flying and hats spinning in classic star-burst impact lines, before he discovers the man is a bookie — whereupon Mutt instantly places a bet. Fisher draws in a loose, energetic pen line: exaggerated tumbling figures, speed lines, and speech balloons packed with indignant slang. *Mutt and Jeff* launched in the *San Francisco Chronicle* in 1907 as one of the first strips built around a single recurring cast rather than rotating gag characters. Its daily continuity format — readers following Mutt's racetrack obsessions strip to strip — directly shaped what would become the comic book's sequential grammar.