The Katzenjammer Kids!

*The Katzenjammer Kids* follows two mischievous brothers causing chaos through pranks and physical comedy. This Sunday strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary established by newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in domestic settings, and slapstick gags escalating across the page. The strip's German-immigrant family milieu and exaggerated dialect humor were staples of early 1900s comic strips. Appearing in the *Omaha Sunday Bee*, this strip exemplifies how Sunday newspaper comics—with their generous space and color capabilities—became the primary venue for American sequential narrative art before the comic book format emerged in the 1930s.