Them Days Is Gone Forever

A four-panel Sunday comic strip by Al Posen featuring a husband and wife in bed. The humor unfolds through domestic complaint and reaction: the wife accuses Joe of snoring, Joe denies it, the wife recalls her parents' warning against marrying a snorer, and Joe's indignant response—complete with sound-effect lettering—proves her point. The strip exemplifies the visual vocabulary of 1920s newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring couple as protagonists, escalating physical comedy, and typography as narrative device. Such strips formed the immediate predecessor to the comic book format, establishing the panel-driven storytelling and character-based humor that would define the medium.