From the exhibition
Old Doc Yak
· July 18, 1912
A Sunday newspaper strip by Sidney Smith featuring Old Doc Yak, a goat character navigating domestic and social mishaps. The six-panel layout uses sequential art conventions—speech balloons, varied panel sizes, and sight gags—that typified early newspaper comics. Doc Yak's interactions with other characters move through recognizable scenarios: financial schemes, misunderstandings, and physical comedy. The strip exemplifies how newspaper Sunday pages served as laboratories for visual storytelling during comics' formative years, establishing recurring characters and narrative pacing that would influence later comic book design.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain
