Petting Patty

A Sunday comic strip following Patty, a young woman navigating social situations with flirtation and quick wit. This six-panel sequence shows her managing a waiter's confusion at a restaurant, dealing with multiple admirers, and negotiating her schedule—typical scenarios for the era's dailies and Sunday pages. The strip employs the standard visual grammar established by early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive figure drawing, and recurring characters in ongoing situations. By the late 1920s, such strips populated Sunday supplements nationwide, establishing conventions that would define comic books when they emerged in the following decade. The artist captures period fashion and mannerisms while maintaining the rapid-fire gag structure essential to newspaper syndication.