Simon Simple Finds 'Waxy' Sauce for the Goose

A six-panel Sunday strip following the misadventures of Simon Simple, a character navigating everyday conflicts through slapstick and physical comedy. The narrative progresses through escalating confrontation: Simon seeks apples from a vendor, exchanges words with a competing boy, and a chase ensues involving a stick and baskets of fruit. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics—sequential panels advancing a single gag, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and repeated characters in weekly installments. By the early 1900s, the Sunday comics pages had become laboratories for visual storytelling, where artists developed the grammatical tools—panel borders, action sequences, expressive caricature—that would define the medium for decades.