The Top o' the Mornin'

W. D. Nesbit's *The Top o' the Mornin'* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic supplement at its height. The page combines multiple strip narratives—*Crafty Man*, *Sport*, *At Colon*, *Little Henry's Slate*—alongside prose stories and advertisements, all unified by decorative borders and consistent typography. Speech balloons and sequential panels carry both gags and narrative; recurring characters like Little Henry anchor reader engagement across installments. This layout became the template for early comic books, establishing how visual storytelling, character continuity, and page design would organize humor and adventure for mass audiences through the twentieth century.