S-Stut-t-ter-ing S-S-Sam-m-my

This six-panel Sunday strip follows young Sammy's playground mishap. In the opening panels, Sammy stutters through an explanation of a broken pot to his companion. As the narrative progresses across the grid, physical comedy escalates—the children tumble and collide in the middle panels before Sammy attempts to repair the damage in the final frame. The strip employs sequential art conventions now standard to comics: consistent character design, speech balloons for dialogue, and panel progression to convey temporal sequence. Early newspaper comic strips like this one established the visual vocabulary that would define the medium, transforming illustrated gags into narratives told through juxtaposed images.