Samson the Strong Man

This Sunday page follows Samson, a burly strongman in a checkered suit, through six comic episodes. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated body language for comedy, and recurring characters in escalating situations. Panel 1 introduces Samson bragging about his strength; subsequent panels show him encountering a small boy, a jujitsu instructor, a Russian tailor, and various antagonists—each encounter building slapstick chaos. The artist uses dynamic line work and crowded compositions to convey motion and mayhem. By 1905, the Sunday newspaper page had become the primary format for comic strips, establishing conventions—panel borders, word balloons, sight gags—that would structure comic books for decades to come.