Schemes

This six-panel strip follows Jones, a scientist pursuing an elaborate scheme to extract valuable odors from beer, whiskey, onions, and tobacco. The narrative progresses from Jones's initial pitch to his board of health through his triumphant discovery of the "Odor-Glo-Dite"—a creature magnified 500 times—to his ultimate plan to weaponize it against his rival. The strip exemplifies early comic art conventions: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and slapstick logic. Published during the formative period when newspaper comic strips established the visual grammar that would define the medium, this work demonstrates the Saturday page format's rapid-fire gag structure and the artist's economical line work.