Percy

This Sunday strip follows Percy, a mechanical boy, through a six-panel narrative of Christmas mischief. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters rendered with consistent proportions, and sight gags built across a continuous narrative arc. Percy's articulated limbs and clockwork construction anchor the humor in physical comedy—he wreaks havoc with an axe, tangles himself in Christmas decorations, and engages in slapstick exchanges with other characters. The dense crosshatching and detailed linework reflect the technical demands of newsprint reproduction. As a weekly Sunday feature, Percy was part of the newspaper comic supplement boom that established comics as a distinct medium, where artists developed the panel-to-panel grammar that would influence all subsequent sequential art.