Percy

This Sunday strip follows Percy through a series of comedic mishaps involving a shipping crate, a mysterious button, and a packing case. The narrative unfolds across nine panels with escalating physical comedy: Percy's attempts to open and manipulate the crate result in his becoming trapped inside, leading to chaotic pursuit and slapstick resolution. By 1912, newspaper comics had established the visual conventions seen here—sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags timed for maximum comic effect. Sunday strips like this occupied full pages or half-pages in color, while dailies appeared in black-and-white. These strips were the direct precursors to the comic book format that would emerge in the 1930s, establishing the narrative grammar and character-driven humor that defined the medium.