Percy

Percy follows the misadventures of a young boy and his mechanical robot companion navigating early 20th-century city life. This Sunday page exemplifies the visual storytelling conventions that emerged from newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, sight gags built into the layout, and recurring characters in episodic narratives. The strip's dense, detailed linework and complex page composition reflect the technical demands of Sunday rotogravure printing. Percy represents the newspaper comic strip as a fully formed medium—neither prose illustration nor simple gag cartoon, but a hybrid language combining words and images in a measured sequence that became the foundation for modern comic books.