Polly and Her Pals — The Washington Times, April 11, 1920

This page from *The Washington Times* carries a listing for Polly and Her Pals, Cliff Sterrett's strip that had run since 1912. Though the actual strip panels are not reproduced here — only the theatrical advertising page survives in this scan — the listing places Polly squarely in the Sunday comics ecosystem that was actively forging what we now call the comic book: recurring cast, weekly visual seriality, and the panel-and-balloon grammar pioneered by Outcault and McManus. Sterrett's work was notable for its Art Deco geometry and genuine wit, centering a fashionable young woman rather than a male buffoon — unusual for the era — while Pa Perkins supplied the slapstick foil. Sunday pages like this were the direct material ancestors of the collected comic book format.