Percy

Percy follows a young protagonist through a comedic misadventure involving a banker, stolen money, and escalating chaos across nine panels. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: rectangular panels in grid formation, speech balloons advancing plot and gag, and recurring characters whose expressions and poses carry narrative weight. The frantic middle and lower panels show slapstick action—tumbling figures, dynamic angles—rendered in bold black line work typical of the Sunday page era. Percy represents the newspaper comic strip as it evolved from gag-a-day format toward brief sequential narratives, establishing the visual language and pacing that would become foundational to comic books.