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Krazy Kat — The Washington Times, December 7, 1919
· December 7, 1919

This full Sunday broadsheet page from *The Washington Times* shows Krazy Kat running as a narrow left-hand strip alongside four larger features: *The Dingbat Family*, *Abie the Agent*, *Jerry on the Job*, *Polly and Her Pals*, and *Us Boys*. Krazy Kat's panels are compact, featuring Herriman's signature spare desert mise-en-scène and the cat's dreamy monologue. *Abie the Agent* (Harry Hershfield) and *Jerry on the Job* (Walter Hoban) demonstrate the era's visual grammar — sequential panels, speech balloons anchored to characters, punchline final frames — the direct structural ancestor of the comic book. Together these strips document the Sunday page as the laboratory where modern sequential art was assembled.
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