The Teasers: Bobby Preys a Sleight-of-Hand Man

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring Bobby, a young character who attempts magic tricks on a goat. Across six panels, Bobby's conjuring act—making the goat's hat vanish and reappear—escalates into comic chaos as the goat devours his own hat. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in early 1900s comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated expressions, and recurring characters. Sunday pages like this were among the first sustained narrative comics in American newspapers, establishing the panel-and-dialogue format that would become foundational to the medium. The artist uses slapstick pacing and animal gags typical of the era's humor.