Stepbrothers—Major Stuff Doesn't Believe in Ghosts

A Sunday newspaper comic strip from *The San Francisco Call* featuring the recurring characters Stepbrothers and Major Stuff in a ghost-themed comedy. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comics: sequential panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons advancing narrative and gags, and expressive character designs. A white-sheeted figure haunts the household, leading to escalating panic among the residents. The strip's humor derives from slapstick business and dialogue, with the joke's payoff occurring across multiple panels—a structural approach fundamental to comics as they emerged from newspaper Sunday supplements. Such strips established the visual and narrative grammar that would become the foundation of the comic book medium.