From the exhibition
Foxy Grandpa and His Runabout Dairy
· St. Louis Republic, October 5, 1902

This Sunday newspaper comic presents *Foxy Grandpa*, a recurring character who appeared in strips across American papers in the early 1900s. The top panel shows an elaborate wedding scene on Mount Ararat with anthropomorphic animals as guests—camels, goats, and other creatures attending a formal ceremony. Below, a six-panel sequence titled "Foxy Grandpa and His Runabout Dairy" depicts slapstick action: a cow-drawn dairy cart careens through streets, with Foxy Grandpa and companions struggling to control the animal and cargo across sequential scenes. The strip employs speech balloons, panel borders, and exaggerated body language typical of newspaper comics that established visual conventions later adopted by the medium. Such Sunday supplements were the primary venue for sequential art before comic books emerged.
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