Pranks of the Fourpaws

This six-panel Sunday strip follows three mischievous monkeys as they capture a tiger in a wooden barrel. The narrative unfolds through sequential action: the monkeys spot their prey, devise a trap, spring it successfully, and celebrate their unlikely victory by tormenting their captive from the safety of a tree. W.L. Wells's pen work employs the visual conventions emerging in early comics—panel borders, dialogue balloons, and expressive animal characters—to convey physical comedy and narrative momentum. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era adapted the linguistic precision of text and image together, building readable stories through deliberate pacing and visual gags.