Old Doc Yak Gives the Bears a Free Ride

A Sunday comic strip featuring Old Doc Yak, a goat character who runs a taxi service. The strip employs the visual grammar that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags. Doc Yak negotiates with a customer over cab fare, eventually agreeing to drive bears for a thousand dollars. The humor builds through dialogue and physical comedy across nine panels, moving from conversation to action to collision. This strip exemplifies the newspaper Sunday page format that preceded and shaped the comic book form, relying on character consistency and panel-by-panel narrative progression to deliver narrative and comedy to a mass audience.