Ratty and Algy Rob the Same House

This Sunday strip follows two competing burglars attempting the same heist, a premise built on visual slapstick and mistaken identity. The narrative unfolds across six panels using speech balloons and sequential staging—conventions that newspapers had recently standardized. The strip's humor relies on overlap and collision: the characters encounter each other in darkness, clash over the theft, and create chaos indoors. The stark black-and-white linework and economical layouts typified early 1900s newspaper comics, when Sunday funnies drove circulation and established the visual grammar later adopted by comic books: recurring characters, panel borders, and escalating gags across a fixed page space.