The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday strip follows Polly, a drowsy child, through a dream sequence triggered by a phonograph. The artist uses sequential panels and speech balloons to track the girl's imagination: a cat with a banjo, a theatrical performance, and surreal domestic chaos. The comic employs clear visual transitions and recurring character design to guide readers through narrative time. Such strips were foundational to comic art, establishing the panel-based language that would define the medium. Sunday newspaper comics of this era combined humor, child protagonists, and domestic settings to build loyal readerships while newspapers competed for circulation.