Krazy Kat — The Washington Times, December 21, 1919

This Sunday page from *The Washington Times* shows the full breadth of a 1919 newspaper comics section: five strips sharing a single broadsheet. Herriman's Krazy Kat runs as a narrow vertical strip down the left margin — its familiar desert-Southwest staging barely glimpsed here, Krazy pursuing Ignatz across spare panels. Surrounding it are The Dingbat Family, Abie the Agent (Harry Hershfield's broadly caricatured Jewish protagonist, rendered in the exaggerated ethnic shorthand universal to the era), Jerry on the Job, Polly and Her Pals, and Us Boys. The page itself *is* the artifact: these syndicated broadsheets, with their locked panel grids, recurring characters, and speech balloons, invented the visual grammar that 1930s publishers would simply cut, bind, and call a comic book.