Krazy Kat — The Washington Times, January 26, 1919

This Sunday broadsheet page from *The Washington Times* shows how the American comic strip was consolidating its grammar in real time. George Herriman's *Krazy Kat* occupies the top-left corner strip — its looping, tender absurdism already distinct from the rowdier neighbors sharing the page: *The Dingbat Family*, *Abie the Agent*, *Jerry on the Job*, *Polly and Her Pals*, and *Us Boys*. Each strip uses multi-panel sequences, speech balloons, and recurring characters — the exact toolkit that syndicates would soon bind into pamphlets, creating the comic book as a format. *Abie the Agent* and *Polly and Her Pals* carry the broad ethnic caricature typical of the era — exaggerated features and dialect spelling used for cheap comedy, reflecting mainstream American nativism of the period. The page is a working archive of how visual storytelling industrialized itself.