Our Antediluvian Ancestors

This Sunday strip presents a satirical family tree, with prehistoric characters discussing their possessions and social standing. The narrative flows left to right across linked vignettes—a visual technique central to early newspaper comics. Young Stonehatchet boasts of his mother's wealth in animal skins and bone tools to an impressed peer, while adjacent panels show domestic life and intergenerational interaction. The strip employs speech balloons, exaggerated linework, and anthropomorphic humor typical of pre-1920s comic pages. Such Sunday features, appearing in newspapers nationwide, established the sequential art vocabulary and recurring-character format that would define the comic book medium once periodicals began reprinting newspaper strips in the 1930s.