Our Antediluvian Ancestors

A Sunday comic strip featuring cavemen and dinosaurs in humorous domestic scenarios. The strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons to develop sight gags: a character crosses a dinosaur to reach the other side; an elder describes acquiring new clothing. The humor derives from anachronistic dialogue and situations—primitive humans discussing modern concerns. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual language: discrete panels advancing narrative time, varied figure poses conveying action and personality, and repeated character types establishing a recurring world. Such Sunday pages, appearing in papers nationwide, established the formal conventions—panel borders, balloon placement, expressive linework—that would define comic art through the twentieth century.