Our Own Solomon

This Sunday newspaper comic strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary emerging in early-twentieth-century funny pages: sequential panels arranged in grid format, speech balloons containing dialogue and narrative exposition, and a recurring character—the Solomon figure—navigating domestic mishaps. The left panels show physical comedy in slapstick tradition; the right pages feature longer narrative sequences with multiple tiers, reflecting how newspaper comics adapted Victorian serial illustration to modern comedic purposes. By the 1900s, strips like this populated Sunday supplements nationwide, establishing the panel-based storytelling language that would define comic books for decades to come.