Various - Condo, A.D.

This Sunday comic strip employs the visual conventions that emerged from the newspaper funnies in the 1890s: distinct panel borders, speech balloons, and recurring character types. The strip places a contemporary man alongside historical and mythological figures—a common gag structure of the era that relied on anachronistic humor and costume contrast. The artist uses exaggerated facial expressions and dynamic linework typical of early-twentieth-century comic illustration, when strips appeared in Sunday supplements and daily papers as entertainment that reached millions. These newspaper comics established the visual grammar—sequential panels, lettering styles, comedic timing through layout—that would become foundational to the comic book medium emerging decades later.