Salesman Sam

A Sunday page from *Salesman Sam*, featuring the titular protagonist and his associates in a chaotic office scene. The strip uses multiple panels with speech balloons to show sequential action and dialogue across a single narrative moment. Sam and his colleagues navigate workplace mishaps and misunderstandings through physical comedy and verbal gags. The Sunday page format, combining daily strip continuity with larger visual presentation, was central to the newspaper comic's emergence as a distinct art form in the early twentieth century. Cartoonists developed the visual vocabulary—panel borders, word balloons, character consistency—that would define comics as a medium distinct from illustration or text.