Otto Auto

This three-panel strip follows Otto Auto and a passenger on a cross-country drive. When asked if the car must stop to sleep, Otto boasts the vehicle never rests—then promptly falls asleep at the wheel, triggering a two-hour snooze and a dramatic thirty-degree turn. The final panel shows Otto waking from dreams of surfing, oblivious to the chaos. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor: recurring automotive characters, visual gags dependent on panel sequence, and exaggerated motion lines. Published during the automobile's cultural ascendancy, Otto Auto capitalized on readers' fascination with motoring while employing the speech balloon and sequential panel layout that newspapers had standardized as the visual grammar of comics.