Terry and Tacks

Joe Farren's *Terry and Tacks* follows two young children through seaside mishaps. Here, an aunt attempts to corral them under an umbrella while they resist—a domestic comedy played across six panels with clear sequential action. The strip employs the visual grammar established by newspaper comics: distinct panel borders, speech balloons capturing dialogue, and a cast of recurring characters whose personalities drive simple situational gags. Published during the height of Sunday newspaper comics, *Terry and Tacks* represents the period when the funny pages functioned as the primary venue for sequential art, before comic books collected these daily and Sunday strips into bound form.