Uncle Remus Stories: Brer Rabbit's Peep-Hole

A nine-panel Sunday comic by Joel Chandler Harris (text) and J.M. Conde (art) depicting Brer Rabbit outwitting his adversaries through cunning. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual syntax: sequential panels arranged in a grid, narrative captions beneath each scene, and recurring animal characters engaged in folk-tale adventure. Conde's line work—detailed cross-hatching, expressive poses, careful spatial composition—demonstrates the illustrative sophistication that distinguished Sunday comic sections from their simpler daily counterparts. The strip's episodic structure and character-driven humor made it ideal for serialization in newspapers, establishing formats and narrative methods that would define comic strips for decades.