Samson the Strong Man

This Sunday newspaper strip follows Samson, a checkered-suited strongman whose feats of physical prowess drive each episode's comedy. Across six panels, his companion reports that their horse has gone lame; Samson responds by lifting the animal single-handedly, then hurling it across a fence. The escalating chaos—involving bystanders, a collision, and a final plunge into the Atlantic—exemplifies early comic strip humor built on exaggerated action and visual gags. The strip demonstrates the narrative conventions emerging in newspaper comics: recurring characters, sequential panel arrangement with speech balloons, and humor that relies on drawn movement and scale rather than witty dialogue alone.