Terry and Tacks

Joe Farren's *Terry and Tacks* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic strip at its height. The strip follows two child characters through domestic mishaps—here, a boating expedition that ends in water. Farren employs the visual conventions that newspapers had standardized by the 1910s: multiple tiers of panels, speech balloons anchored to speakers, sequential action flowing left to right, and escalating comic peril resolved through slapstick. The strip's design reflects how newspaper comics functioned as both daily serialized narratives and weekly entertainment, establishing the visual grammar that comic books would inherit and refine.