Prof Hypnotiser Gets More Than He Bargained For

This six-panel newspaper comic employs the visual language established by the Sunday funnies: sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring character types, and escalating physical comedy. A hypnotist's street performance spirals into chaos as his subject—a heavyset man—becomes uncontrollable, multiplying into a crowd that chases the professor away. The strip's rapid scene shifts from intimate con to public havoc use panel borders and composition to guide narrative flow, techniques fundamental to early comic strip vocabulary. The exaggerated anatomy and slapstick humor typified newspaper comics of the early 1900s, when Sunday pages and daily strips served as the primary testing ground for sequential art that would define the coming comic book medium.