Pranks of the Fourpaws

A six-panel Sunday comic strip drawn by W.L. Wells with verses by C.P. McDonald. The narrative follows four animal characters—a tiger, hyena, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros—through a sequence of jungle pranks and encounters. Each panel advances the story through sequential art, employing speech balloons and captions to convey dialogue and narrative exposition. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: distinct panel borders, animal characters as comedic protagonists, and naturalistic ink illustration. Published during the formative period when Sunday supplements and daily strips established the visual and narrative structures that would define American comics for decades.