The Adventures of Cupid

Nell Brinkley's *Adventures of Cupid* appeared in the Sunday newspaper supplement, where illustrated fiction and sequential narrative flourished before the modern comic book emerged. This episode shows Cupid as a winged figure guiding human romance—a classical theme rendered in Brinkley's distinctive pen-and-ink style. The composition uses spatial arrangement and detailed linework typical of early 1900s newspaper illustration. Brinkley was among the first major female cartoonists of the Sunday pages, a medium that established visual storytelling conventions—panel borders, dramatic poses, readable expressions—foundational to comics that followed.