Smitty — Ain't It the Truth?

This daily strip follows Smitty, an office boy caught between his exasperated boss and workplace absurdities. The narrative unfolds across four panels: Smitty asks about a job involving an Indian guide; the boss warns him of the ridiculous nature of the assignment; Smitty questions the logic; the boss responds with resignation. The strip employs the visual grammar now standard to comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and character expressions that register emotion and tone. The humor derives from the gap between Smitty's innocence and workplace reality. Newspaper comics like this one were the primary medium of the form before the comic book, establishing the visual language and recurring-character storytelling that defined the medium.