Tommy Town Shoots a Rabbit

This six-panel strip follows a boy's misadventure with a rifle and a rabbit in an urban setting. The narrative unfolds through sequential action: Tommy asks permission to demonstrate his marksmanship, takes aim, misses repeatedly, and his wild shots scatter through the neighborhood, eventually sending him flying backward. The comic employs the visual conventions established in early newspaper comics—panel borders, speech balloons, exaggerated body language, and a clear progression of cause and effect. The strip's style and format represent the newspaper Sunday page tradition that directly preceded the comic book as we know it, where recurring characters like Tommy carried humor through physical comedy and domestic scenarios that appealed to mass audiences.