Moving Pictures of Our National Pastime—The Lady Bug

This Sunday comic strip follows a female spectator through a baseball game, her attention divided between the sport and social concerns. Across twelve panels, the recurring "Lady Bug" character attends the fourth inning, forgets her gum, comments on players and strategy, and leaves early—her priorities shifting from baseball to domestic matters. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual vocabulary: sequential panels with speech balloons, sight gags relying on facial expression and body language, and a narrative arc compressed into a single page. Such strips, appearing in Sunday supplements nationwide, established the formal grammar later adapted by comic books and shaped how readers understood visual storytelling.