Now, What D'ye Think of That?

This Sunday comic strip exemplifies early newspaper humor through sequential panels and visual gags. The strip follows a narrative arc across six frames: life insurance company executives forced to resign, their attempt to appear safe by reigning in their president, and the ironic outcome when a Senator becomes involved. The artist employs recurring character types, speech balloons anchored to speakers, and panel divisions that guide readers through cause-and-effect storytelling. The heavy black-and-white woodcut style was typical of Sunday supplements in this era. Such strips formed the visual grammar that would define comic books: the panel grid, dialogue placement, and comedic timing through sequential art. Newspapers provided the laboratory where artists developed the medium's fundamental language.