Petey

This Sunday comic strip features a small character named Petey caught between two adult authority figures locked in escalating conflict. The four-panel sequence uses speech balloons and sequential frames to build narrative momentum—a visual vocabulary inherited from earlier newspaper comics of the 1890s–1900s. The humor derives from physical comedy and the gap between what characters demand and what actually occurs. By 1917, Sunday newspaper comic strips had become standard features, establishing recurring characters and formal techniques (panel borders, perspective shifts, exaggerated expressions) that would become foundational to comic book art.