Tidy Teddy Plays Puss in Boot—Usual Debut—Bath

A nine-panel Sunday comic following young Teddy's chaotic bathtime as he attempts to play the fairy tale character Puss in Boots. The strip employs sequential panel layouts and speech balloons to narrate physical comedy: Teddy splashes through a bathtub while adults struggle to manage the mess. The artist uses recurring character types—exasperated parents and mischievous child—that became staples of early newspaper comics. Published during the Sunday supplement era when comic strips transitioned from single gags to narrative sequences, this strip demonstrates how visual storytelling through panel progression and gesture replaced reliance on caption-heavy text, establishing conventions that would define the emerging medium.