Don'ts for Today

A single-page Sunday comic strip presenting a series of cautionary vignettes in six to eight panels. Each scene illustrates a specific safety warning or behavioral prohibition: children with firecrackers, dynamite near a fire, candles held overhead, hard knocks to the head, and loaded firearms given as toys. The strip uses recurring child characters in domestic and outdoor settings, employing speech balloons and sequential panel layout to build narrative cause-and-effect. The style—pen-and-ink line work with bold blacks and caricatured figures—is typical of early newspaper comics that established visual conventions for the medium. Such safety-focused strips were common in Sunday supplements, blending entertainment with public health messaging for family readership.