Percy

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows Percy through New Year's Eve revelry and resolution-making. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated character expressions, and sight gags built around domestic comedy. Percy's interactions with his companions—rendered in bold ink lines and dense crosshatching—establish the recurring-character format that newspapers pioneered and comic books would inherit. The strip's vertical and horizontal panel layouts show how cartoonists of this era experimented with pacing and composition on the printed page, creating a visual rhythm that guided readers through the narrative. Such Sunday funnies were the direct predecessors to the modern comic book.