Them Days Is Gone Forever

A Sunday comic strip centered on workplace negotiation and cost of living. A job applicant asks about salary; the employer responds that wages have risen due to liberal policies, yet a girl can still live on twelve dollars weekly. The strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons and recurring characters—visual conventions that emerged from newspaper comics in the early 1900s. By the 1920s, Sunday pages like this one combined humor with topical commentary on economics and social change, establishing the narrative and graphic formats that would define comic books.