It's All Tonkytalk

A six-panel Sunday strip by Al Posen depicting a domestic conversation about money and clothing. The humor turns on the wife's announcement that hold-ups—robberies—are decreasing, prompting her husband's exasperated response that such news is "only tonkytalk." The strip employs the standard visual vocabulary of 1920s newspaper comics: uniform panel borders, speech balloons, and sequential action within the domestic interior. Posen's economy of line and reliance on dialogue over slapstick typifies the character-driven humor dominating the Sunday pages, where recurring figures and domestic situations replaced the purely visual gags of earlier strips. This domestic comedy formula became a foundational mode for comic strip narrative.