Glenn O. Coleman, 1910

This ink sketch by Marjorie Organ captures a figure in early twentieth-century dress—double-breasted coat, high collar, narrow trousers—rendered with the loose, gestural line work characteristic of newspaper illustration of the era. The exaggerated facial features and body proportions reflect comic art conventions of the period, when caricature served as the visual language of humor in dailies and Sunday supplements. The confident penwork and economical line suggest a working artist's hand, documenting the style that would soon crystallize into the formal grammar of sequential comics: the bold outline, simplified anatomy, and expressive distortion that made characters legible to mass audiences turning newspaper pages.