Reg'lar Fellers

Gene Byrne's *Reg'lar Fellers* follows a group of neighborhood boys through everyday mischief and schemes. In this strip, one character boasts about showing friends money from a bank robbery, then attempts to demonstrate the haul—only to have it scatter across the ground. The four-panel progression uses speech balloons and sequential action to build comic timing, a visual vocabulary now standard to the medium. Appearing in newspapers nationwide, *Reg'lar Fellers* was among the strips that established the Sunday and daily format as the primary laboratory for comic narrative, influencing the visual grammar that would define comic books.