Ophelia by Dwiggins

A Sunday strip featuring the character Ophelia—a tall, angular female figure laden with domestic objects and surrounded by smaller cartoon characters. The composition stacks multiple figures and props vertically, creating a visual gag around domestic life and motion. Dwiggins employs bold linework, expressive faces, and speech balloons to drive the humor. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring characters, exaggerated proportions, and layered visual gags. As a Sunday feature, this page-sized format gave cartoonists room for elaborate compositions and detail unavailable in daily strips, helping establish the visual vocabulary that would define commercial comic art for decades.