Simon Simple: 'Everybody Works But Bridget'

This twelve-panel Sunday comic follows Simon Simple through a day of domestic chaos. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that defines early newspaper comics: regular panel grids, speech balloons carrying dialogue and thought, and a recurring cast navigating escalating physical gags. Simon's encounters with an enormous quantity of potatoes—peeling, cooking, and disposing of them—build in absurdist momentum across the page. The strip exemplifies how Sunday newspaper comics of the 1900s adapted techniques from print illustration and vaudeville into a new sequential narrative form, establishing the formal language that would anchor comic books decades later.