Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday strip follows a girl named Polly through six sequential panels as she naps outdoors and dreams of winter games. The narrative unfolds through speech balloons and caption text, establishing the visual conventions that would define newspaper comics: recurring characters, panel-to-panel progression, and integrated word-image storytelling. The strip exemplifies early 1900s Sunday page humor, where domestic scenarios and children's adventures provided accessible, family-oriented entertainment. Artists working in this period—developing sequential art for daily and Sunday newspapers—established the formal language of comics: bordered panels, speech balloons, and continuous narrative that would become the foundation of the medium as it evolved into the comic book format of later decades.