Smitty—A Man of Letters

This daily strip follows Smitty, an office boy navigating workplace absurdity. In this sequence, a complaint box on the first day yields nearly a million letters—prompting the boss to suggest the boy simply read them. The solution spirals into chaos across four panels as Smitty attempts the task, creating physical comedy through escalating disorder. The strip uses economical panel layout, expressive line work, and dialogue balloons to accelerate gags. *Smitty* exemplifies the newspaper comic strip formula perfected in the 1920s–30s: recurring characters in serialized episodes, visual pacing that drives humor, and the graphic conventions—panels, speech balloons, action lines—that became foundational to comic book language.