Petey Dink

In this Sunday strip, Pop takes Petey and friends on a joyride down a steep hill. The sequence demonstrates the formal vocabulary that shaped early comics: four panels arranged left to right, advancing action through framed moments, speech balloons carrying dialogue and reaction. C. A. Voight's *Petey Dink* ran in newspapers as a daily and Sunday feature, part of the visual tradition from which comic books emerged. Newspaper strips of this era established the panel-to-panel narrative flow and character consistency that became foundational to the medium. The humor turns on timing and escalating peril—Petey's concern about brakes, Pop's confidence, the mounting chaos—all conveyed through line work and sequential juxtaposition rather than text alone.