Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday comic strip follows Polly and her caretaker through six sequential panels as a simple outing turns chaotic. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: numbered panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons carrying character dialogue, and a recurring cast set in everyday situations. The narrative unfolds through action and reaction across the page, relying on readers' ability to track sequence and expression. By the early 1900s, such strips were standard features in Sunday papers, establishing the visual grammar—layout, perspective, and character consistency—that became foundational to comic books and graphic storytelling.