The Top o' the Mornin'

W. D. Nesbit's Sunday page combines narrative strips with joke sequences and illustrated humor essays. The layout—multiple tiers of panels, speech balloons, and captioned gags—reflects the visual vocabulary emerging in early newspaper comics. Recurring character types and sight gags drive the humor across vignettes titled 'Haughty Thing,' 'Following Precedent,' 'A Back Number,' and 'R-R-Revenge!' Alongside comics, the page includes text features like 'An Alphabet of Jokes' and 'Craft in Courtship,' blending sequential art with traditional newspaper humor columns. This hybrid format was typical of Sunday supplements in the 1900s, when comics and illustrated features shared space as competing attractions for readers.