Ratty and Algy as Porch Climbers

This Sunday strip follows two animal characters—a rat and a ferret—through a series of escalating mishaps on a snowy day. The narrative flows across six panels: the pair begin outdoors, attempt to scale a porch, tumble through domestic spaces, and encounter bewildered residents indoors. The artist uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and sight gags typical of early newspaper comic strips. Animal characters were stock players in turn-of-the-century comics, where their antics provided physical comedy unbounded by realistic human behavior. The strip exemplifies how Sunday pages served as laboratories for visual storytelling—establishing the panel-based grammar and recurring characters that would define the comic book medium emerging in subsequent decades.