Polly Sleepyhead

This six-panel Sunday comic follows Polly, a young girl prone to napping, through a series of misadventures involving a toy cart and a mule. The strip demonstrates early newspaper comic conventions: sequential panels with continuous narrative, speech balloons conveying dialogue, and recurring character traits driving the humor. The artist employs detailed crosshatching and careful composition to guide readers through the action, from Polly's dozing at the cart's helm to the mule's spirited chaos and the eventual consequences of her inattention. Published during the formative era when Sunday newspaper comics established visual storytelling techniques that would become foundational to the medium.