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 narrative strips with distinct characters and storylines—"Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune," "How, Indeed?", "At the Masked Ball"—alongside single-panel gags and illustrated features like "Galileo" and "A Hungry Player." Each strip employs sequential panel layouts, speech balloons, and recurring characters to develop humor and plot. The dense, crowded composition reflects the era when Sunday comics competed for readers' attention through variety and visual sophistication. These newspaper pages established the visual vocabulary and serialized format that would define comic books for decades to come.