The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday comic strip follows young Polly through a series of misadventures triggered by her sleepy nature. Beginning at the piano, Polly's drowsiness leads her outdoors, where she encounters a series of escalating comic situations—chasing animals, tumbling downhill, and wielding a shovel with comic ineptitude. The strip employs the visual conventions that were becoming standard in early newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged in a grid, expressive figure drawing, and action lines conveying motion. By 1906, such strips had become fixtures of the Sunday newspaper page, establishing the visual language—panel borders, speech balloons, recurring characters—that would form the foundation of the emerging comic book medium.