Skating Is All Right—with a Pillow

This Sunday strip depicts a character learning to ice skate by clutching a pillow for balance—a sight gag that builds across six panels. The artist employs the visual vocabulary now standard in comics: sequential panels advancing a single narrative, speech balloons capturing dialogue and thought, and exaggerated body language for comedic effect. The strip exemplifies the newspaper comic page as it developed in the early twentieth century, when Sunday supplements became vehicles for visual storytelling. Recurring characters in ongoing situations, drawn in a consistent hand, gave readers reason to return to the comics section week after week, establishing a format that directly preceded the comic book.