Our Antediluvian Ancestors

This Sunday strip employs the sequential panel format standard to early newspaper comics, with speech balloons advancing a visual gag across multiple frames. The artist uses cross-hatching and loose linework to depict primitive humans interacting with a dinosaur, establishing humor through anachronism and domestic situations applied to prehistoric life. The strip exemplifies how early comics borrowed techniques from newspaper illustration—varied panel sizes, expressive figure drawing, and sight gags dependent on sequential reading. Such humor strips populated the Sunday pages of major newspapers, establishing recurring characters and narrative continuity that directly influenced the development of comic books as a medium.