Top o' the Mornin'

W. D. Nesbit's Sunday strip demonstrates the visual language of early newspaper comics. Multiple narrative panels with speech balloons guide readers through sequential gags and character-driven plots. The page combines comic vignettes—"Discreet," "Another Version," "How Could They?"—with topical humor and running characters. By the early 1900s, Sunday newspaper supplements had become laboratories for visual storytelling, where artists tested panel layouts, timing, and dialogue. These pages, appearing weekly in millions of homes, established conventions that would define the medium: recurring characters, dialogue-driven humor, and panel-to-panel narrative flow that later became foundational to comic book design.