Our Antediluvian Ancestors

A Sunday comic strip using prehistoric setting and caveman characters to comment on contemporary social problems. The strip's narrative frames modern grievances—high cost of living, labor disputes, theft—through the fictional lens of Stone Age ancestors, creating satirical distance from current events. The panel layout flows left to right with speech balloons anchoring dialogue to individual characters. Recurring cast members enable serialized storytelling across the newspaper's weekly pages. This strip exemplifies how early comic artists adopted sequential art conventions—distinct panels, varied compositions, expressive line work—that would define the emerging medium and influence comic book form.