The Top o' the Mornin'

W. D. Nesbit's *Top o' the Mornin'* appeared in Sunday newspapers as a multi-panel comic strip combining sight gags, dialogue, and sequential narrative. The strip features recurring characters and uses the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: discrete rectangular panels, speech balloons, and expressive line work. Each episode presents self-contained stories tied together by character and tone, ranging from domestic comedy to absurdist situations. The strip exemplifies how Sunday newspaper supplements became laboratories for comic narrative before the first comic books appeared, establishing the panel-based sequential art form and the regular readership habits that would define the medium.