Salesman Sam

In this daily strip, Sam pursues a missing Bonbon, a small character who has vanished among the merchandise and clutter of a store. The narrative unfolds across five panels using speech balloons and sequential action to propel the gag forward. Sam moves through crowded shelves and displays, searching and questioning others, until a final reveal delivers the punchline. The strip exemplifies the visual shorthand developed in 1920s newspaper comics: overlapping figures, motion lines, and dense backgrounds convey chaos and slapstick momentum. *Salesman Sam*, which ran from 1921 to 1935, was drawn in a brisk, economical line style typical of dailies, where artists developed the panel-based grammar that would define comic books.