Those Kids Next Door—Little Sammy Is a Bad Indian

This Sunday comic strip follows children playing Indians and cowboys, a common backyard game of the era. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels using speech balloons and sequential action to show how young Sammy's enthusiastic gunplay escalates into an adult's frustrated intervention. The strip employs the visual vocabulary established by newspaper comics in the 1890s and 1900s: bordered panels, expressive line work, recurring child characters, and escalating comic conflict. The artist captures both the children's creative energy and the adult world's exasperation with their noise and chaos—a familiar domestic theme in early newspaper humor strips that preceded and directly informed the development of the comic book form.