The Teasers: Bobby Was Tagged All Right

This Sunday comic strip follows a chase game through a domestic setting. Bobby, the central character, flees across multiple panels as other children pursue him in a game of tag. The humor escalates through physical comedy—collisions, tumbles, and breathless exhaustion—rendered in expressive line work typical of early-1900s newspaper comics. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that define the medium: sequential panels advancing a simple narrative, speech balloons capturing dialogue and internal thought, and a recurring cast of child characters. Such strips populated newspaper Sunday supplements, establishing the visual grammar—panel borders, motion lines, exaggerated expressions—that became foundational to comic books.