Smitty—Indian "Brave"

This Sunday page from *Smitty* shows the strip's visual conventions at work: a four-panel grid with speech balloons advancing the narrative, recurring characters (Smitty, his grandmother, his friend Jinkies), and a child's adventure story unfolding through sequential art. The gag follows Smitty's plan to paint himself as a Native American and surprise his grandmother with a costume. The strip exemplifies the newspaper comic page format that established the grammar of modern comics—bordered panels, interior monologue, physical comedy rendered through line work. *Smitty* ran as both daily strips and Sunday pages, a format that reached millions of readers and influenced the visual storytelling techniques foundational to the comic book medium.