Telling Tommy

A Sunday comic strip by Pim featuring Tommy and adult characters in conversation. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined newspaper comics: multiple panels arranged across the page, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring characters in domestic settings. The central panels showcase furniture design history—specifically chairs from different periods—while flanking panels show Tommy and other figures. The educational approach, mixing instruction with humor through a child character, was common in strips of this era. Newspaper comics of the 1920s established the medium's fundamental grammar: panel sequencing, speech integration, character consistency, and the Sunday page format that made comics accessible to broad audiences and directly influenced the comic book format that emerged a decade later.