Splinters

A six-panel Sunday strip following a woman's attempt to collect maple sap from a tree. The narrative escalates from domestic instruction to slapstick chaos: the bucket spills on dogs, who chase her into a ravine, leading to a final confrontation indoors where she discovers the dogs have tracked mud everywhere. The strip demonstrates early newspaper comic conventions—regular characters, sequential panel progression, and physical comedy—that established the visual grammar of American comics during the Sunday supplement era, when syndicated strips became a dominant form of popular entertainment.