Simon Simple's Easter Parade

This full-page Sunday strip from *The Washington Times* follows Simon Simple through an Easter parade, employing the visual language that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring cast of characters navigating urban situations. The strip's six-panel layout guides readers through narrative time and space, establishing conventions that would become standard in comic art. Early 1900s newspaper comics like this served as both entertainment and cultural commentary, appearing weekly in Sunday editions and developing the formal grammar—panel borders, dialogue placement, character consistency—that would structure the emerging medium of comic books.