Those Kids Next Door—Nippy's Pop Plays Blind Man's Buff

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring Nippy and his friends in a children's game of blind man's buff. The strip demonstrates the fully developed visual language of early comics: sequential panels arranged in a grid, dialogue in speech balloons, and a cast of recurring child characters whose expressions and physical comedy drive the narrative. The artist uses exaggerated poses and quick linework to convey motion and mischief across twelve panels, building gags through character interaction and escalating absurdity. By 1913, such strips were standard fare in Sunday newspapers, establishing the formal vocabulary that would define comic strips and eventually comic books.