Smitty — What's Good for the Goose

This daily strip follows Smitty, a mischievous office boy, through four panels of escalating chaos. A colleague suggests he file complaints in a suggestion box; Smitty's energetic response—captured mid-leap with dynamic line work—lands him in trouble with his boss, who lectures him while holding the very papers Smitty was meant to file. The final panel reverses roles: Smitty calmly directs the now-frantic adult to a complaint suggestion box. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of early comic strips: sequential panels, speech balloons, exaggerated postures, and recurring characters. Such strips appeared daily in newspapers, reaching millions of readers and establishing the narrative and graphic conventions that would define American comics for decades.