Out Our Way

This daily strip depicts Elf Dakin, a character who has entered the trucking business, navigating the practical challenges of hauling cargo. The three-panel sequence shows a comedic exchange about load placement and vehicle balance, with onlookers questioning where cargo will fit in the driver's lap. The strip employs the visual conventions established in early newspaper comics: bordered panels, speech balloons, and recurring character types. By the 1920s, such strips populated daily and Sunday newspapers across America, establishing the sequential art vocabulary that would become foundational to the comic book medium. Williams's linework captures period vernacular and working-class humor typical of the era's newspaper strips.