Tommy Town Plays Hide and Seek

This six-panel Sunday strip follows a group of children playing hide-and-seek in a massive haystack. The sequence demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: numbered panels guiding readers through narrative time, speech balloons containing character dialogue, and repeated figures across frames to track action and emotion. The artist uses crosshatching and bold linework to render texture and depth, particularly in depicting the towering hay and the children's movements. By the turn of the twentieth century, daily and Sunday newspaper comics had become laboratories for developing the visual grammar—panel borders, sequential layout, and character consistency—that would define the comic book medium for decades to come.