Our Own Solomon

A Sunday newspaper strip featuring a recurring cast navigating domestic comedy and urban life. The layout chains multiple panels across the page, using speech balloons and sequential narration to unfold gags—a formal vocabulary still central to comics today. The strip employs exaggerated line work and caricature typical of early 1900s newspaper illustration. By this period, the Sunday comic page had become a standard feature in American dailies, competing for readership through serialized characters and visual humor. Artists working in this medium established the panel-to-panel grammar and visual conventions that would define comic art for decades.