Old Doc Yak

This Sunday comic strip follows Old Doc Yak, a goat character, through a five-panel sequence of physical comedy. The doctor attempts to collect payment from a monk, leading to a series of escalating gags involving money, a disappearing patient, and slapstick violence. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring anthropomorphic characters, and sight gags dependent on illustration rather than wordplay. *Old Doc Yak* represents the Sunday supplement comics that flourished in American newspapers during the 1910s, where artists developed the panel-based narrative structure that would become foundational to the comic book medium.