Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo

This Sunday comic employs the *upside-down* format popular in early newspaper strips: the same six panels read as one narrative when viewed normally, then as a wholly different story when the page is rotated 180 degrees. The strip follows Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo through misadventures involving lost kittens, garden walls, and pursuing hounds. The artist uses sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags—visual conventions that defined the emerging medium. Published in newspapers nationwide, such strips established the grammar of comics: panel division, word-image integration, and serialized humor that would become foundational to the comic book form.