The Pranks of Pantomime Pete

A six-panel Sunday strip featuring Pete, a mischievous clown in pointed hat and checked suit, executing silent-comedy gags around a backyard fence and doghouse. Pete leaps, tumbles, and torments a small dog through physical slapstick—chasing, jumping, and dodging—while maintaining the pantomime tradition of wordless performance. The strip's panel layout follows the emerging conventions of newspaper comics: sequential scenes that advance a simple narrative through visual action alone. Pete's exaggerated postures and the artist's confident use of black ink and white space create readable silhouettes across distance. This era of Sunday supplement comics established recurring characters and visual storytelling as essential to the medium, bridging vaudeville performance and the graphic narrative that would evolve into the comic book form.