Out Our Way

A daily comic strip centered on rural American life and the misadventures of ordinary characters. This panel shows a hunter explaining to a game warden why he pursued a possum—uncertainty about hunting regulations forced him to track down the official. The strip employs the visual conventions of early newspaper comics: panel borders, speech balloons, expressive linework, and recurring character types. *Out Our Way* exemplifies how daily strips of the 1920s developed visual narrative techniques that became foundational to comics, using humor drawn from specific social situations and regional dialect to engage mass newspaper audiences.