From the exhibition
Only a Pretty Girl—But She Made Plenty of Trouble
· 1906

This Tribune Sunday page deploys the sequential narrative structure that defined early newspaper comics. Nine panels track a young woman's chaotic misadventures—from social gatherings through bicycle mishaps to police involvement—building gags across discrete frames. The strip employs speech balloons, expressive line work, and recurring characters to sustain reader interest across the Sunday edition. Published in the formative years when newspaper comic sections established the visual grammar later adopted by comic books: panel borders, action sequences, and character-driven continuity that transformed illustration into a mass medium.
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