Reg'lar Fellers

Gene Byrne's *Reg'lar Fellers* follows Jimmy and Jug through the everyday mishaps of childhood. Here, Jug's belief in a shopkeeper's sign—"No Mistakes Corrected After Leaving the Cash Register"—leads him to demand fifty cents instead of twenty-five. When Jimmy questions the logic, Jug defends his position by treating the sign as absolute law. The strip's humor rests on children's literal interpretation of adult rules, a staple of newspaper comics in the 1920s. Byrne's panel layout and speech balloons became foundational to the visual language emerging from the Sunday funnies, where recurring child characters and domestic situations provided daily comedy for millions of readers.