Now, What D'ye Think of That!

This four-panel Sunday comic demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early newspaper strips. A man in checked clothing moves through domestic and classical scenes, weeping over various literary and mythological figures—Adonis, Psyche, Dowie, and De Witte. The artist uses sequential panels with captions beneath each, establishing narrative progression through image and text. The recurring character type, expressive line work, and architectural backgrounds reflect the technical vocabulary emerging in Sunday supplements of the 1900s. These newspaper pages functioned as laboratories for the visual language—panel borders, speech balloons, and character consistency—that would structure the comic books to follow.