Their Only Child—He Has Some Judgment

A twelve-panel Sunday comic from the Omaha Daily Bee following a family's attempts to manage their willful young son. The strip employs the visual conventions established by early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters across frames, and escalating comedic situations. The narrative shows parents and visitors reacting to the child's behavior across domestic and social settings. By 1914, Sunday newspaper comic sections had become standard features in American dailies, providing serialized humor that drove readership. Artists working in this medium pioneered the visual grammar—panel layout, word-image integration, character consistency—that would define comics for decades. This strip exemplifies how newspapers deployed family-centered humor to appeal to broad audiences.