Smitty

A daily newspaper comic strip following the misadventures of Smitty, a office boy, and his friend Wobble. The strip's humor turns on visual gags and wordplay: a pocket mirror as gift, a door opener instead of a knocker, the threat of losing a rose. Rendered in loose, energetic ink lines, *Smitty* exemplifies the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons advancing plot and character—that established the formal grammar adopted by later comic books. The strip's recurring cast and episodic structure made it a fixture of the Sunday and daily pages, where millions of readers encountered the medium's foundational techniques.