The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday page follows Polly, a rotund character prone to elaborate daydreams triggered by everyday objects. Each nap launches her into vivid fantasy scenarios: a soup tureen becomes a globe she rides, a football transforms into adventure, a paint palette turns into a swimming hole. The strip's nine-panel grid demonstrates the formal vocabulary newspaper comics inherited from earlier sequential art—distinct rectangular frames, expressive cartooning, and visual gags that require no words to land. The artist captures movement and absurdist humor through posture and scale distortion alone. Sunday funnies like this established the template that would define comic strips and, later, comic books: recurring characters, modular panel layouts, and comedy built from visual transformation.