The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday newspaper strip follows young Polly's misadventures with exotic animals—lions, tigers, and leopards—that appear in her home while she sleeps. Each panel advances the narrative through sequential action: Polly awakens to discover wild beasts, chaos erupts, and resolution follows. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comics: bordered rectangular panels, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and a recurring protagonist whose situation generates humor across episodes. Published in the era when Sunday newspapers ran full-page comics, *Polly Sleepyhead* exemplifies how print serialization created a new visual language—one that would become foundational to the comic book medium.