The Richleigh Family in Norway

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows the Richleigh family on a skiing adventure in Norway. The six-panel sequence uses sequential art to build narrative tension: children begin a pleasant outing, a bear emerges from the woods, and the family flees downhill in comic chaos. Wood-gatherers obstruct their path, yet the children cannot stop their momentum. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary emerging in early 1900s newspaper comics—panel borders guiding eye movement, dialogue captions anchoring action, and repeated characters across installments. Such strips were laboratory spaces where cartoonists refined the graphic storytelling techniques that would become foundational to comic books.