Krazy Kat — The Washington Times, November 16, 1919

This broadsheet Sunday page from *The Washington Times* shows George Herriman's *Krazy Kat* reduced to a narrow left-margin column — two or three small panels squeezed beside the main comic features. Even in miniature, Herriman's loose, econometic line is visible: the Kat, the desert-Southwest mise en scène, the implied Coconino County dreamscape. Surrounding strips — *Abie the Agent*, *Jerry on the Job*, *Polly and Her Pals*, *US Boys* — document the full Sunday page as it actually functioned: a competitive marketplace of recurring characters, speech balloons, and sequential panels that syndicates packaged and newspapers sold. These pages are not precursors to comic books — they *are* comic books, in newsprint form, before the format existed.