Prince Errant: Hana Develops Hoggish Tastes

A nine-panel Sunday comic from the newspaper's Comic Section, *Prince Errant* employs the visual vocabulary that defined early comics: sequential panels arranged in grid formation, speech balloons containing character dialogue, and exaggerated caricature drawing. The strip follows Prince Errant and his companion Hana through an escalating narrative: Hana acquires an appetite for fine foods, progresses to gluttony at a royal feast, and ultimately transforms into a grotesque pig-headed monster. The gag structure—setup, complication, visual punchline—became standard in newspaper comics. The artist uses heavy inking and dense cross-hatching to create dramatic depth and movement across the page, techniques refined in the Sunday supplements where such elaborate work distinguished the medium from cheaper daily strips.