Smitty — Gone with the Wind!

A four-panel daily strip following Smitty, a mischievous boy who spots a girl moving into the neighborhood. The humor unfolds through visual action and dialogue: Smitty watches from below, warns his friend "Jinkies!" about the newcomer, plans to intercept her on the street, then encounters her on a crosswalk. The strip exemplifies the visual economy of newspaper comics—tight panel composition, expressive figure drawing, and escalating gags that resolve in a final punchline. The recurring character of Smitty, along with his supporting cast, made this an enduring daily feature that helped establish the comic strip as a distinct narrative form relying on sequential art, speech balloons, and continuity to engage readers across multiple installments.