Nobody

This comic strip by Meek follows a timeless visual gag: a man discovers a lost pocketbook and congratulates himself on his good fortune, only to have its owner—literally named Nobody—appear to claim it. The strip demonstrates the panel-based narrative structure that became standard in early comics: dialogue balloons advance the plot across discrete frames, while economical line work and exaggerated posture convey character and emotion. The recurring figure of Nobody, an absurdist conceit that plays on identity itself, exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era used wordplay and conceptual humor alongside slapstick. Published in the dailies and Sunday pages that predated bound comic books, strips like this established the visual grammar—sequential panels, speech balloons, sight gags—that would define the medium.