Polly Sleepyhead

This six-panel Sunday strip follows Polly as she naps beneath a large tree, only to be awakened by increasingly chaotic interruptions. A man's seesaw tilts her bench; she repositions herself; he and a boy jostle the bench again; she falls and lands on the boy; bystanders gather as she sits dazed. The strip employs the standard visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons, and a recurring protagonist in domestic or outdoor situations. Published during the boom years of Sunday comic sections, *Polly Sleepyhead* exemplifies how newspaper comics developed narrative pacing and character reaction as core comedic tools, establishing formal conventions that would define the medium for decades.