Terry and Tacks: A Knight in Armor—Oh! Good Night!

Joe Fabben's *Terry and Tacks* follows two young characters through a domestic comedy centered on bedtime resistance. A parent attempts to send the children upstairs; they dodge compliance by constructing an elaborate knight-in-armor costume from household items, complete with a colander helmet. The strip unfolds across twelve panels with speech balloons and visual gags tracking their escalating evasion tactics. Fabben employs consistent character design and sequential staging—hallmarks of the Sunday newspaper page format that shaped early comic strip language. By 1916, such strips populated the humor sections of major papers, establishing the vocabulary of panel arrangement, recurring characters, and domestic farce that would define the emerging medium.