The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

A Sunday newspaper comic strip following a young girl's recurring dreams and their absurd consequences. The nine-panel layout tracks Polly from a nap indoors through increasingly surreal outdoor scenarios: she encounters a magician whose tricks go awry, loses her footing on a country road, and finds herself chased by the magician's mishaps. The strip employs sequential art conventions—consistent character design, panel gutters, and speech balloons—that were becoming standard in early-1900s newspaper comics. The humor relies on physical comedy and the dream-logic juxtaposition of everyday settings with impossible events, typical of the era's popular Sunday funnies that helped establish the visual language later adopted by comic books.