Those Kids Next Door — They're Always Tagging After Nippy

A Sunday comic strip featuring Nippy the dog and neighboring children engaged in a game of tag. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panel layout, speech balloons advancing narrative, and recurring characters in domestic settings. The humor derives from physical comedy and the children's persistent pursuit of the reluctant dog. This strip exemplifies how newspaper Sunday pages functioned as laboratories for visual storytelling—panels, dialogue placement, and character consistency—innovations that would establish the formal grammar of comic books. Early-twentieth-century newspaper comics reached millions daily, making them the primary mass medium for sequential art before the comic book industry existed.