The Summer Girl, No. 18—When She Cooks

Eleanor Schorer's *Summer Girl* series appeared in the Sunday newspaper comics pages, where visual narrative and recurring characters first took root in American print. This strip depicts a domestic comedy: a young woman cooking at camp, her culinary mishap creating chaos while onlookers react in the background. Schorer employs the visual conventions emerging from the newspaper comics medium—sequential panels, expressive line work, and speech balloons—to tell a gag in a single spread. The strip's humor relies on character type and physical comedy, hallmarks of early 1900s comic art that would influence the developing comic book form.