Top O' the Mornin'

W. D. Nesbit's Sunday page combines multiple comic narratives—*The Easter Egg*, *Judgment*, *An Abduction*, *The Easter Gown*, and *Like Mother, Like Daughter*—a format typical of early newspaper comics. Each story unfolds across distinct panels with dialogue balloons, recurring characters, and sequential visual gags. The page showcases the emerging visual language of comics: panel borders that guide reading order, expressive pen-and-ink line work, and domestic or sentimental humor aimed at family audiences. Such densely packed Sunday supplements were the primary venue for comic narratives before comic books existed, establishing both the artistic conventions and publishing model that would define the medium for decades.