Gabe

A Sunday strip by Frueh following the misadventures of Gabe, a young character navigating city life with characteristic slapstick humor. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels progressing left to right, speech balloons containing dialogue, and a central recurring character whose predicaments drive each episode's narrative. Here, Gabe's encounters with a horse-drawn cart and various street obstacles unfold across twelve panels, building comedic momentum through visual repetition and escalating chaos. Published in the Sunday Call section, *Gabe* exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era borrowed theatrical timing from vaudeville while developing the panel-based grammar that would define the medium for decades to come.