Thimble Theatre

A six-panel Sunday comic from *Thimble Theatre*, featuring two children playing a blindfold catching game that escalates into physical comedy. The strip demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions emerging in 1920s newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons advancing plot and gags, and recurring child characters. The artist uses exaggerated body language and facial expressions to convey action and humor across panels. *Thimble Theatre* exemplified the Sunday funnies format that would directly influence early comic book design, establishing how readers followed narrative flow through paneled layouts and how dialogue integrated with sequential imagery.