The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday comic strip follows a young girl's dream adventures sparked by napping outdoors. Each panel presents a discrete gag: Polly sleeps under trees while her balloon drifts skyward; she encounters fantastical characters and situations; a dramatic explosion propels her through the air. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics—regular panel grids, speech balloons, sequential narrative flow, and a recurring protagonist. Drawn in the pen-and-ink style of the Sunday funnies, *Polly Sleepyhead* exemplifies how newspaper comic strips of the 1900s established the formal language that would become the foundation of the comic book medium.