The Top o' the Mornin'

W.D. Nesbit's *Top o' the Mornin'* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic supplement at its height. The page combines text stories, illustrated gags, and sequential panels in a dense layout typical of early-twentieth-century humor pages. Multiple narrative threads—*Venobia*, *Frenzied Fashions*, *Little Henry's Troubles*, *Lightened the Blows*—employ recurring characters and sight gags arranged in comic strips, speech balloons, and captioned illustrations. The visual language here—panels, sequential action, expressive line work—became foundational to comic art. These Sunday pages were where cartoonists developed the grammar of modern comics before comic books existed as a distinct format.