Zimmie

A bearded character in round spectacles and a wide-brimmed hat delivers a proposal from a wooden platform. The single-panel strip uses a speech balloon to present a humorous observation on automotive regulation: cars should be limited to 20 miles per hour. The style employs bold cross-hatching and ink line work typical of early newspaper comics. Zimmie represents the daily comic strip format that flourished in American newspapers during the 1910s, when artists began standardizing visual conventions—recurring characters, dialogue balloons, and panel layouts—that would become foundational to comic book language and sequential art.