Pinhead Pete

A single-panel comic strip featuring Pete, a character with an exaggerated pinhead, reminiscing about summer heat while snow falls outside. The gag turns on contrast: Pete recalls visiting men in shirtsleeves during August's heat wave, now juxtaposed against a winter scene where he hawks ice for sale. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics—speech balloons, caricatured anatomy, and visual puns—to deliver its seasonal humor. Early-twentieth-century newspaper comics like this one introduced readers to recurring characters and sequential gags, establishing the foundational language that would define the medium for decades to come.