Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday comic strip follows Polly through a series of misadventures involving large barrels and water. The narrative unfolds across nine panels in a grid layout, establishing sequential storytelling through consistent character placement and visual repetition of props. The strip employs speech balloons to convey dialogue and employs slapstick humor typical of early newspaper comics. Drawn in pen and ink with bold linework, the strip represents the visual vocabulary developing in American newspapers during the first decade of the twentieth century—recurring characters, panel transitions, and comedic timing rendered through sequential art. Sunday strips like this appeared in major metropolitan papers and established the formal and narrative conventions that would define comic strips and eventually comic books.