Penny Ante by Jean Knott

A Sunday strip about office workers debating how to spend their annual pooled "kitty." The treasurer resists excess spending; colleagues propose a charter taxi, banquet, or fishing trip to Florida. One contributor objects to funding a smoker. The strip employs the visual conventions of early newspaper comics: multiple characters arranged across a scene, speech balloons carrying rapid-fire dialogue, and a narrative that unfolds through conversation rather than action. *Penny Ante* exemplifies the humor strips that dominated Sunday comics pages in the 1910s, built on recognizable workplace types and the democratic haggling of ordinary people making collective decisions.