Resolutions

This Sunday comic strip presents six episodes of New Year's resolutions and their immediate abandonment. A central circular panel shows a fashionably dressed couple contemplating elaborate wardrobe changes, while surrounding scenes depict characters retreating from their stated intentions—a man renouncing foolish fashions, a woman rejecting dowdy simplicity, parents managing unruly children, and couples pursuing leisure and romance. The strip employs the visual vocabulary standard to newspaper comics of the 1910s: sequential panels, speech balloons, ink line work, and recurring character types. Such Sunday pages, along with daily strips, established the narrative and artistic foundations that would define comic books for decades to come.