Spareribs and Gravy

This Sunday strip follows two characters on a fishing expedition that yields increasingly absurd results. The narrative unfolds across six panels with escalating physical comedy: a modest catch becomes a boisterous celebration, then a chaotic pile-up, culminating in a desperate call for a taxi. The artist employs sequential storytelling conventions—speech balloons, varied panel sizes for pacing, and exaggerated expressions—that were becoming standard vocabulary in newspaper comics of the 1910s. Recurring characters and situational humor drove reader loyalty to Sunday pages, which competed fiercely for newspaper real estate and shaped the visual language that would define the emerging comic book medium.