Pranks of the Fourpaws

This six-panel Sunday strip follows the misadventures of animal characters—a raccoon, possum, coon, and fox—as they scheme and quarrel over a stolen valentine. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons, establishing a clear visual hierarchy of action and dialogue. Drawn in bold pen line with careful cross-hatching, the strip showcases the visual language that newspaper comics were perfecting in the early 1900s: recurring characters, escalating gags, and the panel-based storytelling that would become foundational to comic art. Such strips, appearing weekly in Sunday editions, reached millions and provided the formal template later adopted by comic books.