Red Grange Chose The Better Part

Will Rogers's Sunday comic strip commentary on college football and professional sports, featuring a multi-panel narrative with speech balloons and sequential art. The strip uses recurring character types and panel-to-panel progression to deliver Rogers's topical humor about athletes, education, and money in sports. Published during the height of newspaper comics as the dominant popular art form, Rogers's strip exemplifies how cartoonists developed visual storytelling conventions—panel borders, dialogue placement, and character consistency—that would become foundational to comic books. The strip's blend of satirical text and illustrated action reflects the newspaper Sunday pages' role as the proving ground for graphic narrative techniques.