Petting Patty

A Sunday newspaper comic strip following the romantic misadventures of Patty, a young woman navigating courtship and social situations. Each panel advances the narrative through dialogue balloons and sequential art, establishing character dynamics across six frames. The strip employs the visual conventions standardized in 1920s newspaper comics: panel borders, expressive figure drawing, and speech balloons to convey both dialogue and comedic timing. Like many strips of this era, *Petting Patty* relies on contemporary social anxieties—here, dating customs and female autonomy—as its central humor. The daily and Sunday pages of newspapers served as the primary laboratory for comic strip innovation, where artists developed the visual grammar and narrative techniques that would later define the comic book medium.