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

A six-panel newspaper comic strip following a young boy's misadventure with a firecracker near a storefront. The strip employs sequential visual storytelling with speech balloons and expressive line work characteristic of early 20th-century comic art. The protagonist's stammering speech pattern—rendered typographically through repeated letters—drives the humor across the panels as his stutter intensifies with excitement. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging from newspaper Sunday pages: clear panel demarcation, readable compositions, and character movement that guides readers through a simple narrative arc. Such daily strips were foundational to comic art development, establishing panel flow and dialogue techniques that would define the medium.