School Days

This Sunday newspaper comic strip exemplifies the visual vocabulary that emerged from early comic pages: multiple panels arranged across the page, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring characters in everyday scenarios. *School Days* depicts children engaged in typical mischief—balancing acts, pranks, and classroom antics—rendered in dense, busy compositions crowded with incident and gag sequences. The strip's artist uses pen line with cross-hatching to create depth and movement across a single large panel divided by sight lines and character placement rather than formal borders. By 1910, such strips had become standard fare in Sunday supplements, establishing the sequential narrative format and character-driven humor that would define twentieth-century comic strip storytelling.