Our Antediluvian Ancestors

This cartoon strip depicts prehistoric creatures and early humans in a comedic encounter. The upper panel shows dinosaurs and winged reptiles towering over cavemen, while the lower panel features a group of primitive humans observing the action. The gag, delivered through speech balloons, compares a fast-running human to "Professor Skinclothes," who is supposedly writing a book on "Wild Animals of the Jurassic Period." The strip uses sequential panels and dialogue balloons—visual conventions that defined newspaper comics of the early twentieth century. Humor derived from anachronism and the juxtaposition of prehistoric fauna with human civilization was common in Sunday supplements, which served as testing grounds for the visual storytelling techniques that would become foundational to comic books.