Our Friend Mush and Other Boys

Ad Carter's *Our Friend Mush and Other Boys* strips boys on roller skates navigating neighborhood life—mischief, pets, and social friction. The Sunday page format allows Carter to develop situations across six panels with speech balloons and sequential action. The composition and character design reflect the newspaper comic traditions that emerged in the 1890s: recurring cast, slapstick humor, and visual storytelling broken into discrete moments. By the 1920s, such daily and Sunday strips had become the primary vehicle for American comic narrative, their visual grammar—panels, gutters, balloon placement—establishing conventions that shaped the emerging comic book medium.