Percy

Percy follows a mischievous character through a department store, where a minor errand becomes a chain of slapstick disasters. The strip employs the visual vocabulary pioneered by newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated action lines, and a recurring protagonist whose small misadventures escalate comically. Percy's style reflects early-1910s comic strip conventions—simple character design, crowded composition, and humor derived from physical chaos rather than witty dialogue. The nine-panel layout and dense linework typify the Sunday supplement format that, alongside daily strips, established comics as a distinct medium with its own graphic language separate from editorial cartooning.