Resolutions: I'll Learn to Skate—It Looks Easy

This Sunday newspaper comic illustrates the sequential visual language that defined early twentieth-century strips. A figure's New Year resolution to learn ice skating unfolds through four labeled stages: Ambition, Preparation, Consolation, and Disillusion. Each panel depicts a moment in the inevitable progression from confident intention to comic failure, with supporting cast members observing the protagonist's mishaps. The strip employs the fundamental grammar of comics—numbered panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—techniques pioneered by newspaper cartoonists and later codified in comic books. The central vignette captures the climactic fall, surrounded by side panels showing cause and consequence, making the gag structure both clear and visual.