From the exhibition
Look at the Newly Weds' Baby Playing Casino
· August 25, 1907

This Sunday strip follows a young couple and their infant through six panels of domestic comedy. The mother teaches the baby card games, playfully calling it "Napoleon" while the father objects to two-handed play. The gag escalates when the baby produces six cards from its high chair, and concludes with the child babbling casino language—"Da-da!" becoming "Ga-de-da!"—while scattering cards. The strip employs the visual vocabulary pioneered in newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring cast of characters in domestic situations. Sunday pages like this established the formal grammar that would define comic strips and later comic books, combining visual narrative with verbal humor across a grid structure.
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