Slim Jim's Turkey Day

This twelve-panel Sunday strip follows the misadventures of Slim Jim, a lanky character whose schemes to acquire a turkey spiral into slapstick chaos. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels connected by visual and verbal gags: Jim's contraptions fail, his plans backfire, and he collides with authority figures and neighbors. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions—recurring protagonist, speech balloons advancing plot, and panel-to-panel action sequences. By 1915, Sunday supplements had become a major draw for papers, featuring strips like this that combined wordplay with dynamic physical humor. The dense grid layout and ink-heavy linework were typical of the period, when comics established visual grammar that would define the medium for decades.