Top O' the Mornin'

W. D. Nesbit's *Top O' the Mornin'* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic supplement at its height. The page combines multiple independent gag strips—"The Best Answer," "Broken Gently," "Are You One?"—with short comic fiction and illustrated jokes. Each strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons and narrative captions to develop its humor through visual sequence rather than text alone. The layout demonstrates how newspapers of this era built entire pages around recurring characters and scenarios, establishing the structural foundations of modern comic strips. These Sunday pages, appearing in hundreds of papers nationwide, created the visual vocabulary and audience habits that would define comic books when they emerged as a distinct medium two decades later.