The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday newspaper strip follows Polly through a series of domestic mishaps triggered by her habit of falling asleep at inopportune moments. Each panel advances the narrative through sequential action, with speech balloons carrying dialogue and character thought. The strip exemplifies early comic page design: six panels arranged in two rows, relying on situational comedy and the recurring protagonist to sustain reader interest across installments. By the early 1900s, such strips had become standard features in Sunday editions, establishing visual conventions—panel borders, perspective, gesture—that would define the emerging medium of comic art and lay groundwork for the comic book format to follow.