Tidy Teddy's Bath—But He Doesn't Get It

This Sunday comic strip follows a child's failed bath time through six sequential panels, each advancing the narrative with dialogue in speech balloons. A guardian attempts to wash the reluctant "Tidy Teddy," who resists, hides, and creates chaos—overturning bottles and flooding the bathroom. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary emerging in early newspaper comics: panel borders organizing time, recurring characters, and escalating physical comedy. By the 1900s, comic strips had become essential to Sunday editions, attracting readers and establishing conventions—speech balloons, expressive line work, and episodic storytelling—that would define the medium for decades.