Our Friend Mush

This Sunday page by Ad Carter follows a group of street children on a winter adventure. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that became standard in newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring child characters in working-class settings, and physical comedy derived from vaudeville and silent film. The narrative unfolds across six panels, moving from the children's initial plans through their discovery of a friend's absence and eventual reunion at a house. Carter's loose, energetic line work and high-contrast blacks create readable figures against busy urban and snowy backgrounds. Such strips appeared weekly in American newspapers during the early twentieth century, establishing the visual grammar and character-driven storytelling that would define comic books.