Top o' the Mornin'

W. D. Nesbit's *Top o' the Mornin'* appeared in Sunday newspapers as a full-page comic strip featuring interconnected episodes and sight gags. The layout employs multiple panels of varying sizes, speech balloons, and ink illustration to follow narrative threads across several vignettes—"Woman's Worry," "Sometimes the Case," "Obeyed Orders," and others—each exploring domestic comedy and social situations. The strip exemplifies the Sunday supplement format that preceded the modern comic book: serialized character-driven humor distributed through newspapers to mass audiences, using sequential art and word-balloon dialogue as its primary storytelling tools. Such strips established the visual and narrative conventions that would define American comics.