Smitty

A daily newspaper strip following the misadventures of Smitty, a mischievous office boy. This panel sequence shows a classic domestic confrontation: after being caught with a gun, Smitty faces parental discipline with characteristic sass and evasion. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that became standard in comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and expressive figure work—while maintaining the brisk pacing and physical comedy of vaudeville. *Smitty* appeared in papers nationwide during the formative years when newspaper comic strips established the language of sequential art, influencing the visual grammar that would define the medium.