Comic Strips from the Chicago Tribune, 1906

These two comic strips exemplify the visual language developing in early-1900s newspaper Sunday pages. "The World Champion" uses sequential panels and speech balloons to track a wrestling narrative across six frames, building gags through character action and reaction. "The Patent Arrow in Africa" employs larger, more cinematic panels to tell a slapstick adventure story. Both strips rely on physical comedy, exaggerated line work, and the panel-to-panel progression that would become foundational to comic books. The Chicago Tribune was among the leading papers publishing such material, which established recurring characters, visual conventions, and episodic storytelling formats that shaped the medium for decades.