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One-Round Teddy

· 1924

One-Round Teddy
This Sunday strip follows a small boy and his toy bear through a series of mishaps involving a baby carriage. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels in a clear, linear sequence: the child loses control of the carriage, crashes into adults, and creates escalating chaos. The strip employs the visual grammar of early newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring protagonist—that became foundational to comic book storytelling. The drawing style, with its simple line work and exaggerated action lines, typifies the humor strips that dominated Sunday newspaper supplements in the 1920s, when cartoonists were still developing the visual vocabulary that would define the medium.

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