Oolo, Oliver's Ostrich

This four-panel Sunday strip follows Oliver and his mischievous ostrich Oolo through a slapstick adventure. In the first panel, Oliver catches Oolo stealing his lunch; by the second, the bird has grown to enormous size and begins terrorizing the cast. The third and fourth panels escalate the chaos as Oliver and his companions scatter in panic. The strip employs the visual language pioneered by newspaper comics: distinct rectangular panels arranged in grid format, motion lines, speech balloons, and exaggerated character expressions. Recurring characters and serialized gags like these defined the Sunday supplement comics that emerged in the 1890s-1900s, establishing the foundation for modern comic books and graphic narrative.