Fuller Bunk

Meyer Marcus's *Fuller Bunk* strip employs the visual conventions perfected in newspaper comics of the 1910s: discrete panels advancing a narrative, speech balloons carrying character voice, and a recurring cast. Here Fuller encounters a creditor, with the humor turning on economic hardship and evasion. The strip's economy of line and reliance on facial expression and body language—visual rather than textual gags—exemplifies how newspaper comics developed their own grammar distinct from prose. Such dailies and Sunday pages formed the crucible from which comic books would emerge, establishing both the medium's visual vocabulary and its character-driven serial format.