Smitty — Nobody's Being Fooled

This daily strip follows Smitty and his office colleagues through a scheme to pass off a new employee as an old one. The gag unfolds across four panels: Bailey explains the con, Stanley endorses the plan, the men present their fabricated story to skeptical listeners, and Smitty's boss sees through it immediately. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that newspaper comics inherited from European illustration—sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters in workplace settings. Smitty, a boy in office clothes, anchors a humor strip built on rapid-fire dialogue and situational comedy, typical of dailies that preceded the comic book format and trained readers in reading image sequences as narrative.