Out Our Way

A single-panel gag strip showing a man emerging from a bathroom doorway confronting his family about a mousetrap. The cartoon exemplifies the domestic humor that dominated newspaper comics in the early 1920s, with recurring character types—the irritable patriarch, attentive wife, and seated child—arranged in a shallow interior space. The artist uses simple line work and cross-hatching typical of the era's newspaper reproduction standards. Speech balloons carry dialogue, while the caption below provides narrative framing. This format bridged the gap between newspaper illustration and the emerging comic strip medium, establishing visual conventions—panel composition, character placement, speech integration—that would become foundational to comic book storytelling.