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Percy

· November 26, 1911

Percy
This Sunday comic strip follows Percy, a young character navigating domestic scenes with deadpan humor. Across nine panels, Percy encounters dinner mishaps, suspicious accusations, and family tensions—each episode building comic momentum through visual gags and verbal one-liners. The strip employs the visual grammar pioneered by newspaper comics: rectangular panels, speech balloons, recurring characters, and sequential action that drives narrative forward through image and text. Percy typifies early 1910s Sunday pages, when comics became essential features of American newspapers, establishing the formal language that would define the medium for decades.

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