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Reg'lar Fellers

· May 25, 1919

Reg'lar Fellers
This Sunday newspaper page features *Reg'lar Fellers*, a daily and Sunday strip that ran in hundreds of papers. The strip's format—multiple panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons, and repeated child characters in domestic situations—exemplifies how newspaper comics evolved into the visual language of modern comic books. By 1919, strips like this had become the primary venue for sequential narrative art in America, establishing the panel structure, lettering conventions, and character-driven storytelling that would define the medium for decades. The page layout itself demonstrates how Sunday editions gave cartoonists space for larger illustrations and more elaborate gag sequences than the tight dailies allowed.

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