Top O' the Mornin'

This Sunday page by W. D. Nesbit presents multiple comic narratives—including 'Wishing You' (a fairy-tale riff on Cinderella), 'The Two Systems,' 'No Small Scale for Him,' and others—each occupying its own defined panel grid. The layout typifies early newspaper comics: dense text, varied illustration sizes, and interconnected gags relying on puns and social observation. The recurring cast of characters and modular panel structure here reflect the emerging visual language that would define the medium. Sunday supplements like this served as the crucible where cartoonists experimented with sequential narrative and developed the formal conventions—word balloons, panel borders, sight gags—that would become foundational to comic art.