Regular Fellers by Gene Byrnes

Gene Byrnes's *Regular Fellers* strips a child's domestic misadventures across nine panels. A boy breaks a peach calendar, smashes his finger, reads his mother's fortune in tea leaves, and creates household chaos—each incident a self-contained gag. Byrnes employs the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, physical comedy, and recurring characters in domestic settings. The strip's rapid-fire humor and reliance on visual storytelling typify the Sunday funny pages that, alongside daily strips, established the language and structure foundational to comic books. Byrnes's accessible drawing style and focus on everyday boyhood made *Regular Fellers* a staple of American newspapers from 1917 onward.