Our Boarding House

By Ahern, *Our Boarding House* follows the misadventures of Major Hoople and his fellow lodgers through a sequence of domestic chaos. Here, a lost dime in the bedsheets triggers absurd accusations and tangential solutions—a boarder scramblingmeals, another character scheming to save ink by positioning himself over the Major's correspondence. The strip employs the visual conventions codified in early newspaper comics: multiple panels advancing a gag, expressive character reactions, and speech balloons carrying dialogue and extended monologue. Running daily and Sunday in the 1920s, such strips established the formal language of sequential art that would define comic books.