From the exhibition
One Round Teddy
· August 31, 1924

This Sunday comic strip follows the misadventures of Teddy and friends as a cat causes chaos during a backyard game. Told across twelve panels with speech balloons and sequential action, *One Round Teddy* exemplifies the visual storytelling language that emerged in newspaper comics of the 1920s. The strip uses physical comedy and domestic situations—a child, playmates, a mischievous animal—to generate humor across multiple episodes. By this period, the Sunday page format allowed cartoonists to develop sight gags through panel composition, timing, and character reactions, establishing conventions that would define comic strip and later comic book narrative structure.
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