Percy

This Sunday page from *Percy* follows the title character through a mechanical mishap. Percy's inventor friend demonstrates a new contraption—a nail-driving hammer mechanism—but the device malfunctions spectacularly, launching nails everywhere and sending Percy flying across the landscape. The strip employs the visual vocabulary pioneered by newspaper comics: multiple rectangular panels arranged in strict sequence, speech balloons carrying dialogue and sound effects, and exaggerated physical comedy that builds across frames. The densely patterned backgrounds and energetic line work are characteristic of early 1910s comic strip illustration. *Percy* represents the popular Sunday funny papers tradition, where serialized character-driven gags appeared weekly in newspapers alongside established strips, before comic books as a medium existed.