Stepbrothers

Gene Carr's *Stepbrothers* follows two boys navigating domestic life with their uncle during his temporary absence. The strip's eight-panel Sunday layout employs sequential narrative and speech balloons to track the children's mischief across rooms—from the attic to the cellar—as they prepare for their uncle's return. Carr's character design and panel composition reflect the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics, where recurring domestic situations and child characters drove humor. The dense layouts and overlapping dialogue typical of 1910s Sunday pages demonstrate how sequential art evolved from earlier single-gag formats into sustained storytelling within the newspaper page.