A Story of Today in Three Chapters, Without Words

This wordless comic strip demonstrates the visual storytelling techniques that defined early newspaper comics. Across three panels labeled "Strike," "Struck," and "Stricken," the artist employs sequential narrative and expressive line work to convey a narrative about labor conflict and its consequences. The recurring characters and panel-to-panel flow show how artists of this era developed the visual grammar—facial expressions, body language, architectural staging—that would become fundamental to comics. Published in newspapers as part of the Sunday and daily comic pages that preceded the modern comic book, strips like this reached mass audiences and established conventions still in use today.