Percy

This Sunday strip follows Percy, a young boy, and his mechanical robot companion through a comedic domestic crisis. When the robot malfunctions, Percy must disassemble it piece by piece while the creature grows increasingly destructive. The narrative unfolds across nine panels using sequential art's emerging vocabulary: varied panel sizes, speech balloons anchored to speakers, and a clear cause-and-effect progression. The strip demonstrates how newspaper comics of this era employed mechanical humor and slapstick to drive narrative forward, relying on visual storytelling to sustain reader interest across the Sunday page. Such strips helped establish the panel-based grammar that would become foundational to the comic book form.