Snapshot Bill

A slapstick newspaper comic by Russ Westover featuring the misadventures of an amateur photographer. Bill pursues his subject across multiple panels—chasing, tumbling, and creating chaos—in pursuit of the perfect shot. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated action lines, and recurring character types. Sunday newspaper strips like this one formed the direct lineage to comic books, establishing conventions for panel progression, sight gags, and physical comedy that would define the medium throughout the twentieth century.