Reg'lar Fellers

Gene Byrnes's *Reg'lar Fellers* followed the misadventures of neighborhood boys navigating urban childhood. In this strip, the gang devises a scheme to cover their ears while driving—a safety measure the adults dismiss as parasols, then reject outright. The comic employs the visual vocabulary that defined 1920s newspaper strips: sequential panels advancing action, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring child characters whose personalities drive the gags. Byrnes's clean linework and slapstick humor made the strip a staple of Sunday and daily pages, contributing to the visual grammar that would become foundational to comic books.