Top O' the Mornin' by W.D. Nesbit

Nesbit's Sunday page employs the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags rendered in pen and ink. The layout mixes single-panel jokes with multi-panel narratives—"Willing to Purchase Silence," "Strange," "Modernity vs. Art"—demonstrating how cartoonists of this era experimented with frame structure and pacing. Recurring character types (dandies, servants, society women) populate gag-driven plots that rely on physical comedy and social observation. Such pages, syndicated in Sunday editions nationwide, provided the formal template—panel borders, balloon placement, character continuity—that would shape the emerging comic book form.