Resolutions

This Sunday newspaper comic employs the visual structure that defined early comics: a central circular vignette surrounded by numbered panels showing five cities—Boston, Providence, New Haven, New York, and New London—each with a distinct scene. A woman sits at the center, resolved to stop flirting. The surrounding vignettes depict her failing that resolution in each locale, using sequential panels to develop a gag across geography and time. The layout exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era combined recurring characters, multiple settings, and sight gags arranged across the page to sustain reader interest across the Sunday edition.