Smitty — Tea for Two

A four-panel domestic comedy where Roger discovers a photograph of Smitty's gardener in the Smith family album. The gag progresses through Roger's realization, a quiet moment of tea at home, and concludes with Roger's stunned silence. The strip exemplifies the visual language of 1920s newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, economical line work, and character-driven humor. *Smitty*, created by Walter Berndt, ran in daily and Sunday newspapers from 1926 onward, featuring working-class characters and office-life scenarios that appealed to urban readers. The strip's clean draftsmanship and narrative clarity helped establish conventions that defined the medium's growth from newspaper funnies into the comic book format.