Terry and Tacks

By Joe Farren, this Sunday strip follows the Christmas misadventures of young Tacks and his Uncle Bill as they attempt to create homemade Christmas bells. The strip's narrative unfolds across twelve panels using sequential art conventions—distinct borders, speech balloons, and recurring characters—that were becoming standard in newspaper comics of the 1910s. The gags build through visual escalation: failed experiments with household materials lead to increasingly chaotic scenes, culminating in slapstick destruction. The artwork employs clear linework and spatial clarity typical of the era's dailies and Sunday pages, which served as the primary laboratory for comic storytelling before the medium's migration to bound publications.