Spareribs and Gravy Strike It Rich

George McManus's Sunday comic strip follows two characters through eight sequential panels, each containing multiple speech balloons that advance a narrative about prospecting or treasure-seeking. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary that became standard in newspaper comics: consistent character design, panel borders dividing time and space, and dialogue balloons anchoring speech to speakers. McManus employs slapstick action and sight gags typical of early comic strip humor. This page from the San Francisco Call represents the Sunday comic section that flourished in American newspapers during the 1910s—a mass medium that established the formal language of sequential art before comic books existed as a separate commercial category.