Pinhead Pete

This single-panel newspaper comic features Pinhead Pete, a character defined by his oversized body and diminutive head. The gag hinges on a play on words: bald-headed March rabbits need not remove their hats at the barber because they have no hair to cut. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on visual exaggeration and pun-based humor. Pete appears in simple line work against minimal background, accompanied by a direct speech balloon—formal elements that became standard in the visual language comics inherited from nineteenth-century illustration and caricature. Such single-panel gags dominated Sunday and daily newspaper comics pages in the 1910s, establishing recurring characters and simple narrative setups that proved immensely popular with mass audiences.