Our Antediluvian Ancestors

This Sunday comic strip follows Johnny Skinclothes and his dinosaur pet through six panels of domestic chaos. The narrative progresses from a drugstore visit through increasingly absurd scenarios—the dinosaur devours the family's provisions, destroys furniture, and ultimately requires a trip to the drug store for indigestion remedy. The strip employs sequential panel layout with speech balloons to advance the gag, a visual structure that became foundational to early comic strips. The recurring characters and escalating sight gags typify the humor formulas of Sunday newspaper comics, where artists developed the conventions that would define the medium's visual language and narrative pacing.