Mose 'Ill Pung and Judy 'Ere's Their First Time

This Sunday comic strip from *The Washington Times* follows Mose and Judy through a slapstick encounter with a stubborn mule. The nine-panel layout demonstrates the sequential narrative technique that became foundational to comic art: each panel advances the story through action and dialogue, with speech balloons carrying character voice and comic timing. The strip's visual grammar—panel borders directing eye movement, exaggerated poses conveying physical comedy, and escalating chaos—shows how newspaper comics of the early 1900s developed the language that would define the medium. What began as brief comic fillers in Sunday papers evolved into the visual vocabulary of sequential art.