Smitty — Out of Control

This daily strip follows Smitty, an office boy navigating corporate boardrooms and bureaucratic mishaps. The comic employs the visual language that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated facial expressions, and sight gags rooted in physical comedy. Smitty strips appeared in papers nationwide, establishing the format that would seed the comic book industry. The rigid panel grid and dialogue-driven humor typify the dailies that trained readers in the grammar of sequential art—a visual vocabulary that became foundational to American comics.