Petting Patty

A Sunday comic strip following Patty, a flirtatious young woman navigating romantic entanglements at a seaside hotel. The four-panel sequence showcases the visual conventions that defined 1920s newspaper comics: recurring characters, overlapping dialogue balloons conveying simultaneous conversation, and sight gags built on physical comedy and misunderstanding. The strip's episodic structure—each panel advancing a single comedic premise—typifies the Sunday pages that preceded the comic book. Jefferson Machamer's ink line and crosshatching create dimensional figures against simplified backgrounds, a economical approach that allowed daily production schedules while maintaining readable character expressions and body language essential to gag-driven humor.