Salesman Sam

This Sunday strip follows Sam, a fast-talking salesman, through three episodes of workplace mishap and comeuppance. In the first panel, Sam admits to his boss he's been tickled pink by a scheme; by the second, the promised raise and promotion have evaporated, leaving him surrounded by scattered merchandise. The final panel delivers the punchline as Sam stands before an alarm clock, his boss's response to Sam's query about what he'd bring to the world. Drawn in the visual shorthand of 1920s-30s newspaper comics—bold blacks, expressive faces, rapid-fire dialogue balloons—the strip demonstrates the sequential narrative and character-driven humor that defined the Sunday funnies and laid groundwork for the comic book medium.