Our Own Solomon

This Sunday page combines two distinct storytelling modes emerging in early newspaper comics. The upper register presents *Punch and Judy Save Explorers from Gorillas* and *The Deacon Waybacker Tries to Dodge Work*—sequential narrative strips using panel borders, sight gags, and physical comedy to advance simple plots. Below, *Our Own Solomon* shifts to a single large illustrated figure with substantial text blocks—a transitional form between Victorian chromolithographed humor and modern sequential art. Together, they exemplify how Sunday newspaper pages experimented with visual formats, recurring characters, and recurring character types that would become foundational to comic strip grammar: defined panels, action sequences, and humor derived from character personality rather than captions alone.