Those Kids Next Door

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring two children and an adult neighbor engaged in a mock-military game. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary that defined early comics: sequential panels progressing action left to right, speech balloons anchored to speakers, and recurring characters in a domestic setting. The humor derives from slapstick physical comedy and role-playing, typical of humor strips in the newspaper Sunday pages. By 1913, newspaper comics had become a primary entertainment medium, establishing the panel-based narrative structure and character continuity that would form the foundation of comic books.