Sunday Comics Page, March 14, 1928

This newspaper Sunday comics page demonstrates the visual innovations that shaped early sequential art. Multiple strips—including *High Lights of History*, *The Gumps*, *Dumb Dora*, and *Barney Google*—share a single page, each using established conventions: rectangular panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters. J. Carroll Mansfield and fellow cartoonists employed exaggerated proportions and slapstick humor typical of 1920s print comics. The page reflects how newspaper strips functioned as daily entertainment for millions, establishing visual grammar and character archetypes that would define the emerging comic book medium. These strips appeared in papers nationwide, proving comics' commercial viability before the first dedicated comic books arrived in the 1930s.