Percy

This Sunday strip follows Percy, a mischievous child character, through a sequence of domestic misadventures involving household chores and adult authority figures. The narrative unfolds across nine panels using sequential art conventions: speech balloons convey dialogue and thought, panel borders guide reader flow, and repeated characters establish continuity. The artist employs exaggerated proportions and physical comedy—characteristic of early newspaper comics—to depict Percy's escalating chaos. By 1913, Sunday comics had become standard features in major newspapers, showcasing full-page formats with color printing. Such strips established the visual grammar later adopted by comic books: the panel grid, expressive line work, and ongoing characters that readers followed daily or weekly. Percy exemplifies how newspaper strips served as the prototype and proving ground for sequential narrative art.