From the exhibition
One Round Teddy
· November 23, 1924

A Sunday comic strip following a young boy and his adventures with animals and adults in domestic and outdoor settings. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the 1920s: sequential panel layouts, speech balloons, recurring characters, and slapstick physical gags. The artwork uses bold line work and cross-hatching typical of the era's print reproduction. The narrative unfolds through six rows of panels, moving from a chase scene through escalating misadventures involving a turkey, culminating in domestic consequences. This strip exemplifies the Sunday page format that dominated American newspapers and directly preceded the emergence of comic books as bound collections of such newspaper material.
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