Out Our Way

A domestic comedy strip featuring Robert and his wife confronting their son about a dubious trade—a prized Airedale for a rabbit. The child's logic is unassailable: a dog cannot lay Easter eggs. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: multiple characters in a single scene, speech balloons positioned above speakers, and sequential panels that build a joke through dialogue and reaction. Strips like this one were the laboratory where artists developed the panel-based visual language that would become the foundation of the modern comic book.