The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday comic strip follows Polly and her toy Joker through six sequential panels, each advancing a simple chase narrative: the doll escapes, Polly pursues, and family members intervene. The artist employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics—bordered panels with varied compositions, speech balloons, and expressive line work. Recurring child characters and their toys became staples of the Sunday pages, which emerged as the primary venue for experimental sequential art in the early 1900s. These strips, distributed nationally through syndication, established the formal language of comic narrative that would structure the medium for decades.