Tweedledum, Tweedledee and the Other Triflet

This Sunday comic strip follows three mischievous characters through a four-panel sequence of escalating chaos. The first panel establishes the setup with dialogue; the second shows a character discovering a pot of paste; the third depicts violent slapstick as the paste explodes outward; the fourth resolves in complete destruction and mayhem. The strip employs the conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a gag narrative, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and repeated characters whose antics drove weekly readership. These Sunday supplements became the laboratory where modern comic art developed, establishing visual storytelling techniques that would later define the medium itself.