Simon Simple

This Sunday page from *The Washington Times* follows Simon Simple through a day of physical mishaps. The strip demonstrates the essential visual language of early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons advancing plot, and a recurring protagonist navigating slapstick scenarios. By the early 1900s, Sunday comic sections had become major newspaper attractions, driving circulation and establishing formal conventions—panel borders, expressive linework, and recurring characters—that would define the medium for decades. Artists working in this period invented the visual grammar that comics still employ.