From the exhibition
The Dog Fight
· January 18, 1925
Albert Payson Terhune's Sunday strip combines text-heavy narrative with sequential illustration—a hallmark of early newspaper comics. The layout employs multiple panels within a single large frame, speech balloons, and expressive line work to follow Old Man Negley's intervention in a neighbor's dog conflict. Terhune's approach reflects the visual vocabulary being standardized in 1920s newspaper comics: the marriage of prose storytelling with picture-driven pacing that would define the medium's evolution from Sunday supplements to collected comic books.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain
