Otto Watt

By Barrie Payne, *Otto Watt* exemplifies the newspaper comic strip's visual language: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and domestic humor. Here, a woman and child discuss radio interference—a timely gag for the 1920s, when radio broadcasting was still novel. The strip's economy of line, clear panel divisions, and reliance on wordplay represent the conventions that newspaper comics inherited from earlier adventure serials and passed directly into the comic book form that would emerge in the 1930s.