Smitty: A Fast Worker

This *Smitty* strip follows the office boy from panel to panel as he moves through a business day. The boss offers the young worker a job; the middle panels show rapid scene changes as Smitty rushes through the office building; the final panel reveals the payoff—when asked about pay day, he answers with characteristic impatience. The strip's visual economy relies on sequential panels, speech balloons, and physical comedy to track a simple gag across multiple locations. *Smitty*, which ran in newspapers from 1920 onward, exemplified the daily comic strip's evolution: recurring characters, tight narrative pacing, and the visual language of panel borders and action lines that became foundational to comic storytelling and the modern comic book form.