Now, What D'ye Think of That?

A four-panel Sunday strip depicting a father-and-son sequence beneath a large tree. The narrative moves left to right: a boy proposes chopping down a cherry tree; the father refuses and threatens relocation to Utah; the boy reflects on changing times and distant places; the father closes with moral instruction about honesty and divine judgment. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and a moral lesson delivered through domestic comedy. Dense crosshatching creates deep blacks characteristic of the period's printing technology. This format—Sunday pages in daily newspapers—established the visual and narrative grammar that would define comic art for generations.