Smitty — All Undressed and No Place to Go

This Sunday newspaper strip follows Smitty, a mischievous office boy, through domestic and social mishaps rendered in the economical pen line characteristic of early comic strips. The four-panel sequence employs speech balloons, visual gags, and recurring characters—techniques that became foundational to comic art. The strip's layout demonstrates the visual grammar newspapers pioneered: sequential panels advancing narrative, exaggerated expressions conveying emotion, and sight gags carrying the joke. Published in the era when comic strips migrated from single panels to serialized storytelling, *Smitty* exemplifies how newspaper comics established the visual vocabulary later adopted by comic books.