Reg'lar Fellers by Gene Byrnes

Gene Byrnes's *Reg'lar Fellers* follows a gang of neighborhood boys through schemes and small-time hustles. In this strip, one character brags about selling a dog glove for fifteen cents, then boasts he resold it for twenty—a petty financial victory that excites the group. Byrnes employs the visual vocabulary that defined 1920s newspaper comics: multiple panels with speech balloons, expressive linework, and recurring child characters in suburban settings. The strip's humor depends on readers recognizing these boys as types—the schemer, the dupe, the audience—and tracking their overlapping conversations across panels. *Reg'lar Fellers* was syndicated nationally and exemplified how the Sunday and daily newspaper page became the laboratory for comics' formal language before the medium migrated to bound comic books.