Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday strip follows young Polly through a sequence of mishaps centered on a tire swing. The narrative unfolds across six panels: Polly and an adult prepare the swing, Polly swings alone, she falls into the tire, other children arrive to witness the accident, water is applied to revive her, and finally she rests indoors. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics—sequential panels, naturalistic figure drawing, and sight gags dependent on panel progression. Polly Sleepyhead ran during the formative period when the Sunday newspaper page became the primary venue for comic narratives, establishing recurring characters and episodic humor that would shape the emerging medium.