Now, What D'ye Think of That?

This four-panel Sunday comic strip follows a fantastical voyage to the moon. A group of travelers sail away in a hot-air balloon, navigate space through an elaborate mechanical twist, encounter the moon's inhabitants, and prepare to return home by hitching a ride on a shooting star. The strip employs dense cross-hatching and stippled backgrounds characteristic of early newspaper comics, with sequential panels that guide readers through each stage of the adventure. Recurring characters and imaginative storylines like this one were central to Sunday newspaper supplements, which drove the visual and narrative conventions that would define comic strips and, eventually, the comic book industry. The artist demonstrates mastery of panel composition and expressive figure work within the constraints of black-and-white reproduction.