Splinters

A Steinigans Sunday strip depicting a clown and a black cat in escalating chaos. Across eight panels, a simple premise unfolds through visual narrative: the cat repeatedly interferes with the clown's attempts at performing, culminating in mutual tumult. The strip demonstrates the formal vocabulary of early newspaper comics—regular panel borders, expressive body language, and wordless physical comedy that relies on sequential images rather than dialogue. Such Sunday pages in newspapers were the training ground for cartooning's visual language, establishing conventions that would define the medium for decades.