Comic Sunday Call Weekly

This Sunday newspaper comic strip by Frueh follows a domestic scenario across nine panels, tracking a child's mischief and parental response with physical comedy typical of early 1910s humor. The strip uses sequential panel layout, speech balloons, and repeated characters—visual conventions that newspapers pioneered and which became foundational to American comics. By 1911, Sunday comic sections had become major newspaper attractions, driving circulation and establishing the visual language—bordered panels, dialogue integration, sight gags—that comic books would inherit and codify in subsequent decades.