Smitty

A daily comic strip following the misadventures of Smitty, a mischievous boy navigating home, school, and neighborhood life. This strip exemplifies the newspaper comics that emerged as a major popular art form in the early twentieth century. Through recurring characters, sequential panels, and speech balloons, *Smitty* demonstrates the visual vocabulary that would define comic strips and lay the foundation for the comic book medium. The strip's simple, direct drawing style and episodic gags made it ideal for daily publication across hundreds of newspapers, establishing the format that would sustain the industry for decades.