From the exhibition
Petey Dink, "The Perils of Petey: The Potato Bug, No. 2"
· May 2, 1917

By C. A. Voight, this Sunday strip follows the misadventures of Petey Dink across four sequential panels. The narrative moves from a domestic scene at Stiffman's establishment through a series of comedic encounters involving a con artist, a photograph, and an officer seeking help. Voight employs the visual conventions of early newspaper comics: bordered panels, speech balloons, and exaggerated character expressions to convey humor and plot progression. The strip exemplifies the Sunday page format that dominated American newspapers in the 1910s, establishing recurring characters and situational gags that drove reader loyalty and shaped the emerging language of sequential art.
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