Spareribs and Gravy

This six-panel Sunday strip follows two hungry men who attempt to steal a bear's meal, only to be chased through the woods and eventually rescued by a passing raft. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons, establishing a chase-and-escape plot typical of early comic strips. The artist uses exaggerated proportions and dynamic postures to convey urgency and slapstick comedy. Published during the formative era of newspaper comics, this strip exemplifies how visual storytelling in daily and Sunday papers established the medium's fundamental grammar: recurring characters, panel progression, and integrated text-and-image dialogue that would become foundational to American comics.