Them Days Is Gone Forever

By Al Posen, this Sunday comic strip depicts a grandmother and young boy in domestic scenes anchored by nostalgic humor. The strip employs the standard newspaper comic vocabulary: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive figure work, and sight gags that build across frames. The grandmother's reflections on "Grandpa's time"—when families had no bathtubs—drive the joke toward the final panel's punchline. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1920s used recurring family characters and intergenerational dynamics to reach broad readership. Such strips formed the visual and narrative foundation for the comic book medium that would emerge in the following decade, establishing conventions of panel layout, dialogue integration, and humorous pacing that remain standard today.