Old Doc Yak Collects His Bill

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring Old Doc Yak, a goat character who attempts to collect payment for his medical services. The strip employs sequential panel layouts with speech balloons to advance a single narrative joke across multiple frames. Doc Yak pursues a reluctant patient through various locations—from farmyard to domestic interior—extracting excuses and evasions before finally securing his fee in cash. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual storytelling conventions: recurring characters, sight gags, dialogue-driven humor, and the Sunday page format that preceded the modern comic book. Animals as protagonists were common in strips of this era, allowing artists broad comic freedom through exaggeration and anthropomorphism.