Skeezicks by Follett

This Sunday strip follows a child and small dog attempting to scale a fence, each trying to encourage the other upward. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels—a visual grammar now foundational to comics—using speech balloons to convey dialogue and thought. The child's persistent problem-solving and the dog's skepticism drive the humor across nine frames. Follett employs heavy shadows and simple linework typical of early newspaper comics, where the Sunday pages published in metropolitan dailies served as the primary medium for sequential narrative art. Recurring characters in daily and weekly strips of this era established the format that would directly influence comic book development in subsequent decades.