The Top o' the Mornin'

W. D. Nesbit's *The Top o' the Mornin'* demonstrates the Sunday newspaper comic page at full maturity. The strip employs multiple narrative panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters to develop gags ranging from slapstick to social observation. Each segment—*Happy Ghought*, *Her View*, *Too True*, *Chambers Outnumbered*—functions as a self-contained joke while maintaining visual continuity through Nesbit's line work. The layout exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era established the visual vocabulary that would define sequential art: bordered panels, expressive figures, and economical storytelling that moves readers through time and action. These Sunday pages were the commercial and artistic foundation from which the modern comic book would emerge.