Petey Dink

In this daily strip, Petey encounters a figure in the woods and mistakes a warning shout for "foe." The artist uses sequential panels to build a chase narrative: Petey's confusion in the first panel, the shouted warning in the second, Petey's panicked flight in the third, and the final reveal of an angry settler. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics—distinct panels, speech balloons, and a recurring protagonist—that evolved directly from the Sunday funnies of the 1890s. By 1917, this grammar was established convention, allowing readers to follow action and dialogue across frames instantaneously.