Percy

This Sunday comic follows Percy, a round-faced boy in a bowler hat, through a sequence of slapstick mishaps involving a street vendor's fruit or produce stand. The strip employs the fundamental visual language of early newspaper comics: multiple panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons advancing narrative and gags, and a consistent recurring character. By 1912, such strips had become central to Sunday papers, driving circulation and establishing conventions—panel borders, sequential action, exaggerated expressions—that would define comic books. The humor relies on physical comedy and cumulative disasters, typical of the era's visual gag tradition inherited from vaudeville and silent film.