The Clown and the Pig

A six-panel newspaper comic strip depicting a chase between a clown in a polka-dotted costume and a pig. The action progresses across the grid with the clown pursuing his quarry through various acrobatic moves and tumbles. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in early 1900s newspaper comics: sequential panels, exaggerated physical comedy, and anthropomorphic animal characters. Published by Tribune Company in Chicago, the strip exemplifies the Sunday funnies that preceded the comic book format, establishing recurring character types and slapstick gags that would define American newspaper comics and influence the medium's development.