Splinters

This Sunday comic strip follows a domestic mishap as a small child and dog wreak havoc during a bath. The six-panel layout uses sequential art conventions—speech balloons, varied perspectives, and escalating physical comedy—that became standard in newspaper comics. The exaggerated linework and slapstick action reflect the visual language developing in early-twentieth-century Sunday supplements, where artists experimented with panel arrangement and timing to convey motion and humor. Recurring characters and ongoing situations made such strips popular features of the newspaper's color sections.