Jerry on the Job

This page from the Sunday comics section showcases six strips—*Jerry on the Job*, *Krazy Kat*, *Abie the Agent*, *Polly and Her Pals*, *Us Boys*, and *Kabibble Cabaret*—representing the visual vocabulary newspapers used to reach millions. By 1920, the Sunday funny pages had become essential to circulation wars, and daily strips appeared in papers nationwide. The artists here employed sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—visual conventions that made narrative legible at a glance. *Krazy Kat*, with its anarchic humor and formal innovation, and *Polly and Her Pals*, with its domestic comedy, exemplified how strips could appeal to different readers. These pages were the true birthplace of comic art, establishing the grammar that would define the medium for generations.