Salesman Sam

A three-panel Sunday strip following Sam, a traveling salesman, as he pitches cutlery and kitchenware to a reluctant customer. The narrative unfolds across panels with escalating chaos: Sam's sales pitch crumbles when his friend Miss Wellborn arrives with news of her engagement, prompting a celebratory scene that devolves into mayhem with a horse bursting through the office. The strip exemplifies 1920s newspaper comic conventions—recurring characters, speech balloons anchoring action, sequential panels building comedic momentum. Artist Small uses dense backgrounds and exaggerated figure drawing typical of the era, when Sunday strips were primary vehicles for visual storytelling and character-driven humor in American newspapers.