Krazy Kat — The Washington Times, December 14, 1919

This Sunday page from *The Washington Times* shows Krazy Kat reduced to a single narrow column of four panels along the left margin — a common format constraint for George Herriman's strip. The tiny panels trace Krazy's looping walk past the Half-Way Inn, the desert landscape spare and geometric even at postage-stamp scale. Sharing the page are *The Dingbat Family*, *Abie the Agent*, *Jerry on the Job*, *Polly and Her Pals*, and *US Boys* — a cross-section of the American Sunday page at its commercial peak. Together these strips demonstrate the Sunday page's role as the true cradle of sequential art: recurring characters, speech balloons, panel-to-panel causality — all invented here, years before the comic book existed as a format.