What's the Use of Traps to Catch Karl and Fritz

This Sunday comic strip follows Karl and Fritz through a escalating series of pranks involving melons at a market stand. The narrative unfolds across nine panels, using slapstick and physical comedy: the boys roll melons toward adults, carry them away in pairs, toss them along railroad tracks, and play catch with produce. The artist employs sequential panel layouts and varied compositions to track movement and consequence—a visual vocabulary that defined the emerging newspaper comic form. By the early 1900s, Sunday supplements and daily strips became the proving ground for cartooning techniques: recurring characters, speech balloons, and panel-to-panel continuity that would establish the grammar of comic storytelling for generations.