From the exhibition
The Richleigh Family in Belgium
· August 21, 1904
A six-panel Sunday strip following an American family's tourist adventures in Belgium. The narrative moves from the Waterloo battlefield through souvenir shopping and hotel life, culminating in chaos when a bunco man's counterfeit money scheme targets the children. The strip demonstrates early newspaper comics' visual syntax: sequential panels with captions, varied perspectives, and recurring characters. Domestic comedy strips like this were staples of the Sunday newspaper pages, establishing the episodic format and sight-gag humor that defined the emerging medium before dedicated comic books existed.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain
