Samson the Strong Man

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows Samson, a powerfully built man in a pinstriped suit, through six sequential panels that establish a simple narrative: his wife requests he go shopping, he reluctantly agrees, then loses patience amid crowds and chaos, ultimately scattering the shoppers with his strength. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comic art—bordered panels, speech balloons, and a recurring protagonist—techniques pioneered in newspaper Sunday pages that directly preceded the bound comic book. The exaggerated figure work and crowded compositions reflect the cartooning style of the early 1900s, when newspapers serialized comic narratives as popular entertainment.