Smitty

A four-panel Sunday strip following the misadventures of its young protagonist and supporting cast. The narrative moves from a flooded domestic scene through fantasies of modern convenience—electric stoves, pumps, and motorboats—to the punchline of an actual ocean liner. The strip employs the visual conventions established in early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated character expressions, and rapid tonal shifts from domestic humor to absurdist comedy. Published during the era when Sunday newspaper comics expanded beyond single gags to serial storytelling, *Smitty* represents the genre's development of recurring characters and ongoing situations that kept readers returning to the funny pages.