Karl and Fritz and Their Wiener-Wurst Snakes

By Victor Schramm of Munich, this six-panel comic strip follows two boys who discover that sausages have mysteriously come to life. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels showing escalating chaos: the discovery in a cart, frantic adults responding to the animated food, and children overwhelmed by the writhing creatures. Schramm employs the emerging visual language of newspaper comics—bordered panels, action lines, and expressive figure drawing—to convey slapstick humor and surprise. The strip exemplifies early 1900s Sunday supplements, where immigrant artists brought European sensibilities to American newspaper audiences, mixing fantastical premises with everyday settings and physical comedy that required no dialogue to entertain.