Thoroughly Aroused

This single-panel comic employs the visual vocabulary of early newspaper humor: a domestic interior rendered in cross-hatching and bold line work, multiple figures arranged around a table, and speech balloons carrying the joke's payoff. The gag turns on the contrast between the ladies' concern for their friend Agnes's visible thinness and the reveal that she has merely changed dressmakers. The composition, with its careful attention to furniture detail and fashion, reflects the period's fascination with consumer culture and social minutiae. Artist A.D. Condo's work exemplifies the graphic sophistication of early-twentieth-century newspaper comics, where single panels and short sequences established the visual grammar—framing, perspective, and text integration—that would become foundational to the comic book medium.