Old Doc Yak Gets a Second Visit from the Landlord

A six-panel comic strip in which a landlord confronts Old Doc Yak about unpaid rent. The landlord issues an ultimatum: pay up or move out by Saturday. Doc pleads poverty, claiming zero income and mouths to feed. The landlord, unmoved, departs. Doc's final panel shows him with a child, promising "Never mind, Park—don't you care." Signed by Sidney Smith, the strip employs the visual conventions that shaped early comics: sequential panels, speech balloons advancing narrative, and a recurring central character. *Old Doc Yak* ran in newspapers from 1917 onward, helping establish the Sunday and daily comic strip as a narrative form distinct from single-panel gags, laying groundwork for the comic book medium that would emerge in the 1930s.