One-Round Teddy

This Sunday comic strip follows Teddy through escalating mishaps involving a baseball game. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels with consistent character design and sequential staging: a child refuses to play ball, gets struck by a pitch, rallies neighborhood kids into chaotic action, and ends with domestic consequences. The strip demonstrates early newspaper comic conventions—recurring child protagonist, physical comedy, speech balloons for dialogue, and panel-to-panel continuity. By the 1920s, Sunday pages like this populated American newspapers, establishing the visual vocabulary that would define comic books: sequential art, expressive linework, and episodic gag structures built on relatable domestic scenarios and slapstick humor.