Prince Errant: Haha Suffers for his Selfishness

This six-panel Sunday strip follows Prince Errant and his companion Haha through escalating physical comedy. The prince refuses to share his armor or food, leading Haha into a series of mishaps—being chased by a dragon, trampled, and ultimately buried. The strip employs panel sequencing to build narrative momentum and uses speech balloons to carry both dialogue and character motivation. Recurring characters and serialized gags became hallmarks of early newspaper comics, which established the visual conventions later adopted by comic books. The artist uses expressive linework and dynamic action poses to convey slapstick humor across the page, demonstrating how Sunday comics pioneered the medium's essential grammar of sequential storytelling.