The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

A Sunday newspaper strip following a drowsy child character through episodes of daydream and mishap. The narrative unfolds across eight panels in a grid layout, combining domestic comedy with fantastical sequences—Polly naps in a chair, then finds herself in a boat, wading through water, and encountering exaggerated figures. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that newspapers had recently standardized: bordered panels, speech balloons, and sequential staging to guide reader attention. Such Sunday comics, appearing in color in major papers, became a commercial engine for the emerging medium, establishing recurring characters and formulaic gags that would define early comic strips and, subsequently, the comic books they spawned.