Karl and Fritz Teach Fido to Fly

By Victor Schramm of Munich, this Sunday comic strip follows two young characters attempting increasingly chaotic experiments with their dog. The narrative unfolds across eight panels in a clear left-to-right, top-to-bottom sequence, establishing cause and effect through sequential art. Each panel advances the physical comedy: the boys rig apparatus, the dog resists, attempts escalate outdoors with comical failure. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on slapstick humor and recurring characters to sustain reader interest across the Sunday pages. Schramm's line work and panel composition demonstrate the visual conventions emerging in the 1900s—bordered frames, varied sizing for emphasis, and pantomime-driven gags requiring no dialogue.