Smitty — Gone Native

A Sunday page from *Smitty*, the newspaper strip that followed a young office boy through misadventures in urban and exotic settings. The four-panel layout moves from a shipboard scene through jungle discovery to comic confrontation, using speech balloons and sequential framing—visual tools that defined the emerging comic strip language of the early twentieth century. The strip's humor relies on slapstick situations and character types familiar to newspaper readers, distributed across syndicated dailies and Sunday pages that formed the primary training ground for the artists and writers who would shape the comic book medium.