Our Antediluvian Ancestors

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring two well-dressed gentlemen observing a massive prehistoric creature. The left panel establishes the gag through dialogue: officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals task one man with training a dinosaur. The right panel delivers the punchline as the creature towers above tiny figures. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in early comics—panel divisions, speech balloons, and exaggerated scale for comic effect. The ink crosshatching technique renders both the refined human figures and the detailed reptilian texture of the creature, demonstrating the drawing skill required for newspaper comic pages of this era, when Sunday strips functioned as illustrated humor before becoming the sequential narrative foundation of modern comics.