As Long as the World Goes Round

A Sunday newspaper comic strip by Clare Briggs depicts the cyclical nature of gender relations through personified figures of years. The composition uses sequential panels and speech balloons to develop a visual joke: a female figure labeled "1912 Leap Year" arrives to announce that women will now pursue men romantically. A male figure responds with mock horror at this reversal of courtship norms. Briggs's draftsmanship—characterized by bold linework and expressive character design—exemplifies the visual language emerging in early twentieth-century newspaper comics, where recurring characters, anthropomorphization, and narrative progression across space became conventions that would shape the medium for decades to come.