The Stars and Stripes and Other Comics

This Sunday newspaper section collects multiple comic strips, including *The Stars and Stripes*, a military-themed strip by the staff of the armed forces newspaper published in France. The page demonstrates the standard format of early-20th-century comic sections: multi-panel strips arranged in grids, employing speech balloons, sequential action, and cartoon illustration to tell gags and stories. Other strips on the page—*Only a Smoke*, *Doing the Front*, and *Wallgren*—showcase the variety of humor and artistic styles that filled newspaper Sunday comics during World War I, when such sections served as mass entertainment and, in the case of military publications, morale-building vehicles for soldiers overseas.