Smitty

This newspaper strip follows the misadventures of a young office boy and his interactions with coworkers and authority figures. The six-panel layout demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions that defined the Sunday newspaper comic: sequential action, dialogue balloons advancing plot and character, and repeated cast members in familiar settings. The strip's reliance on workplace humor and physical comedy reflects the daily serialization format that sustained comic strips as essential newspaper content. Through panels and balloons, artists like those behind *Smitty* developed the visual grammar later adopted by comic books—the formal language of sequential art that remains foundational to the medium.