The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday comic strip follows Polly, a young woman prone to sudden sleep, through a sequence of nine panels that chronicle her unexpected naps and the comic situations they provoke. A leprechaun or mischievous figure appears throughout, orchestrating or exploiting her drowsiness for humorous effect. The strip demonstrates early newspaper comic conventions: recurring characters, sequential narrative across multiple panels, speech balloons containing dialogue and caption boxes with explanatory text below each image. The pen-and-ink style emphasizes caricature and exaggerated poses typical of early-twentieth-century Sunday pages, which served as the direct predecessor to the modern comic book format and established the visual vocabulary—panel layout, character consistency, and gag timing—that would define comics as a medium.