Simon Simple Goes Hunting and Bags a Lobster

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows Simon Simple, a recurring character whose misadventures drove early-1900s humor. The six-panel sequence deploys the formal grammar emerging from newspaper comics: distinct rectangular frames, speech balloons capturing dialogue and thought, and escalating visual gags. Simon attempts to hunt game but comically returns with a lobster instead. The strip's visual style—heavy blacks, exaggerated body poses, small-scale figures—typified the period's Sunday pages. Newspaper comics of this era established the sequential panel structure, character consistency, and timing that would define the medium, moving beyond single-panel editorial cartoons to narrative-driven humor read left to right.