Our Antediluvian Ancestors

This Sunday strip follows a family of prehistoric humans through daily domestic chaos. The narrative progresses through multiple panels: a child refuses to obey, parents attempt discipline, a character displays a stone hatchet as proof of past misbehavior, and the strip concludes with complaints about constant howling. The artwork employs the visual conventions now standard to comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, expressive character gestures, and visual gags built on repetition and escalation. The humor derives from projecting modern family dynamics onto an imagined stone-age setting, a popular comedic device in early newspaper strips that helped establish comics as vehicles for character-driven narrative and domestic satire.