Smitty—Redskins?

A daily newspaper strip panel sequence following Smitty, a boy character central to this long-running comic. The four-panel strip employs the visual conventions standard to 1930s newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, simplified line work, and a narrative arc progressing left to right. Here, Smitty and an adult prepare for departure by plane, acknowledged by a group of Native Americans in the final panel. The strip demonstrates the visual grammar newspapers established—recurring characters, consistent style, and moment-to-moment action across frames—that would become foundational to comic book storytelling. Smitty ran daily and Sunday from 1920 through the 1950s, representing the era when newspaper strips served as the primary venue for sequential art in America.