Sunday Comic Section — The Sun (New York)

This Sunday newspaper page from 1919 shows the comic strip format in its formative years, featuring multiple recurring characters arranged in sequential panels with speech balloons—visual conventions that would define the medium. The page demonstrates how newspapers serialized comics as entertainment, with strips sharing space alongside advertisements and editorials. By the 1920s, these popular Sunday sections would be collected and reprinted as bound volumes, establishing the template for the modern comic book. The artists and cartoonists working in newspapers pioneered panel layouts, word-image integration, and character continuity that became the visual language of comics.