Salesman Sam

This daily comic strip follows Sam, a traveling salesman, through a mishap involving a woman's handkerchief. The six-panel sequence demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions that defined newspaper comics: sequential panels with dialogue balloons, a protagonist caught in escalating physical comedy, and sight gags that propel the narrative forward. Sam's suit and derby hat typify the commercial salesman character of the 1920s. The strip's rapid action and slapstick humor rely on the reader's ability to follow action across panels—a grammar of sequential art that newspapers had perfected by this era, establishing the visual vocabulary that comic books would inherit.