Our Friend Mush and Other Boys

By Ad Carter, this Sunday strip follows a group of boys through misadventures in neighborhoods and backyards. The four-panel layout uses speech balloons to carry rapid-fire dialogue and sight gags—a boy fired from a rifle, accusations of savagery, romantic entanglements with a girl named Margine. Carter employs the visual shorthand developed in newspaper comics: expressive body language, sequential action across panels, and overlapping voices to create slapstick comedy. The strip exemplifies early-twentieth-century newspaper funnies, where recurring boy-gang characters and domestic settings provided daily humor for family audiences. Mush and his companions move through a world of play and small crises, rendered in loose, energetic pen work typical of the period's Sunday pages.