Our Friend Mush by Ad Carter

A Sunday newspaper comic strip following the misadventures of Mush and his gang of working-class boys. Carter employs the visual conventions that shaped early comics: multiple rectangular panels arranged in grid sequence, speech balloons capturing rapid dialogue, and recurring characters in exaggerated caricature. The strip's humor turns on familiar domestic tensions—promises broken, mothers disappointed, schoolyard conflicts escalating into street brawls. Carter's loose, cross-hatched line work and economical draftsmanship convey movement and personality across six panels. *Our Friend Mush* represents the Sunday funny pages tradition that preceded the comic book, when newspaper strips were the primary vehicle for sequential art and visual storytelling in America.