Salesman Sam

This Sunday page follows Sam through a retail transaction: a customer seeks a color choice for a parrot's perch, which pivots into Sam's sales pitch and his wife's skepticism about keeping the bird. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of 1920s newspaper comics—bordered panels, speech balloons, and sight gags anchored in domestic and commercial settings. *Salesman Sam*, running from 1920 to 1935, exemplified the humor strips that filled Sunday papers during the medium's formative years, establishing recurring characters and situation comedy that would shape later comic book storytelling and the conventions of sequential art.