The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday newspaper strip follows Polly, a young girl prone to elaborate daydreams triggered by napping. Each panel depicts a different fantastical scenario—from encounters with mechanical figures and costumed characters to surreal adventures—before Polly awakens to mundane reality. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to guide readers through narrative progression, a visual technique central to early comic strip development. The nine-panel grid and recurring character format typify the Sunday comics pages that preceded modern comic books, establishing conventions of character continuity and episodic storytelling that would define the medium.