Sunday Comic Section — St. Louis Republic

This newspaper Sunday comics page showcases two strips typical of early 1900s comic publishing. The upper panel presents a dense, chaotic scene crowded with characters and sight gags—a visual strategy that maximized entertainment value within a single large format. Below, "Sour Grandma and Smart Made Alex" unfolds through six sequential panels, each containing a distinct moment in a narrative about trickery on the frozen deep. The strip demonstrates the formal grammar emerging in early comics: bordered panels creating temporal sequence, speech balloons capturing dialogue, and recurring characters driving ongoing stories. Sunday supplements like this were the primary venue for comic strips in newspapers, preceding the comic book format and establishing the visual language cartoonists would refine throughout the twentieth century.