Percy

This Sunday comic strip follows Percy through a Valentine's Day mix-up involving romantic mishaps and physical comedy. The narrative unfolds across nine panels using the sequential art vocabulary that newspaper comics had pioneered by 1912: recurring characters, speech balloons for dialogue, varied panel sizes, and a clear visual progression from setup to punchline. Percy's exaggerated proportions and expressive poses—stock figures in early comic strips—drive the slapstick gags. By this date, Sunday newspaper comics had become a standard feature, establishing the visual and narrative conventions that would define the medium. Artists working in this era developed the formal grammar of comics: panel gutters, word balloons, and character consistency that allowed stories to unfold sequentially across a printed page.