Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday comic strip follows Polly and her companions through a series of misadventures involving an afternoon nap. The six-panel layout tracks cause and effect across a linear narrative: a forgotten sleeping dog triggers chaos as the girls attempt to revive it, leading to tumbles, spilled laundry, and comic disorder. Drawn in the clean line style typical of early newspaper comics, the strip employs sequential panels and speech balloons—visual conventions that were still crystallizing in the 1900s. Recurring characters and domestic settings made strips like this fixtures of the Sunday newspaper pages, establishing the format that would eventually define the comic book itself.