Smitty: Is My Face Red?

This Sunday strip follows Smitty's misadventure after mistaking George Bailey for a Native American in native dress. The three-panel sequence chains cause and effect: Smitty's public exposure of the costume triggers laughter, which spreads through an office where the Chief demands to know the source of his missing dress. The strip demonstrates classic newspaper comic construction—recurring office characters, sight gags rooted in physical comedy, and escalating consequences that play out across connected panels. Smitty was among the most widely syndicated strips of its era, establishing templates for workplace comedy that influenced generations of daily newspaper comics.