Foxy Grandpa — The Ball of the Ararat Elite Club / Foxy Grandpa Finds a New Hiding Place

This Sunday page from the St. Louis Republic showcases two sequential narratives featuring Foxy Grandpa, a recurring character who populated American newspaper comics at the turn of the twentieth century. The top panel depicts an elaborate masquerade ball with multiple figures in costume and speech balloons advancing the narrative action. Below, a six-panel comic strip follows Foxy Grandpa discovering and concealing himself in a large pear-shaped vessel while observers search nearby. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: discrete panels arranged in grid formation, dialogue in balloons, exaggerated character expressions, and a protagonist navigating domestic or social situations for comedic effect. Such Sunday pages, distributed widely through syndication, established the formal and narrative grammar that would become foundational to comic book art.