Polly—It Was a Close Shave for Astur

A Sunday comic strip featuring Polly and Astur navigating domestic chaos through slapstick comedy. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels using sequential art conventions—speech balloons, varied panel sizes, and action lines—that had become standard in newspaper comics by 1920. The strip exemplifies the visual language pioneered by earlier cartoonists: recurring characters in ongoing situations, physical gags escalating through logical panel progression, and wordplay supporting visual humor. Newspaper Sunday pages like this were the primary distribution format for comics before the emergence of comic books in the 1930s, making them the foundation of the medium's vocabulary and commercial success.