Smitty—Welcome to Our City!

This Sunday strip follows Smitty and his boss discovering two figures in an abandoned house—a setup that triggers a cascade of physical comedy and mistaken identity across four panels. The artist uses repeated "HA" lettering to convey building laughter, while dialogue balloons advance both gag and character interaction. Smitty, a recurring character in the newspaper comics, appears here in the format that defined early comic strip grammar: panel composition, expressive linework, and sequential visual storytelling. Such strips, distributed daily and Sunday in papers nationwide, established the visual vocabulary that would become fundamental to comic books—layouts, timing, and the relationship between word and image that readers would encounter for generations.