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Looks as though 'Al' is bigger than Tammany

· April 5, 1925

Looks as though 'Al' is bigger than Tammany
Will Rogers' Sunday page combines topical humor with visual narrative spread across multiple panels and a large cartoon. The strip's layout—mixing dialogue-driven scenes with an editorial cartoon—reflects the newspaper Sunday format that bridged entertainment and political commentary. Rogers anchors the strip with his folksy voice, digressing from the main gag into observations about politics and personalities. The panel structure and speech balloons organize information across the page, establishing the visual grammar that newspaper comics developed in the early 1900s and passed directly into the emerging comic book medium. Rogers' strip exemplifies how daily and Sunday newspaper features—not pulp magazines—became the laboratory for sequential art.

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