The Terrors of the Tiny Tads

A six-panel Sunday strip depicting small children encountering an aggressive goose. The narrative unfolds through sequential action: the Tiny Tads sit peacefully outdoors before spotting the bird; a great Unnameable goose chases them downhill; one child rides away on the creature as others flee; the children catch and eat the goose; finally, they depart. The strip employs the visual conventions establishing newspaper comics—bordered panels, expressive line work, and recurring child characters navigating slapstick scenarios. Published in the Sunday papers where such strips, alongside daily serialized narratives, created the formal and commercial foundations for the comic book format that would emerge in the 1930s.