Our Boarding House

A daily comic strip centered on life in a boarding house, featuring the recurring character Mr. Walton as he negotiates dinner options with the landlady. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated character drawings, and a joke structure built on domestic misunderstanding. By the 1920s, such strips appeared in hundreds of newspapers, establishing the narrative and visual grammar that would become foundational to the comic book medium emerging in the following decade.