Top O' the Mornin'

This Sunday newspaper page integrates multiple comic strips and illustrated jokes within a single layout—a format common to early-twentieth-century Sunday supplements. Strips like "Top O' the Mornin'" and "The Wonders of Phrenology" employ sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters to develop brief humorous narratives. The page mixes visual comedy with text-heavy gags and puns, reflecting the period's transition from captioned illustrations to modern comic storytelling. Such pages, distributed through newspapers nationwide, established the visual grammar—panel progression, expressive line work, character types—that would become foundational to American comics.