Petting Patty

A Sunday comic strip following the romantic misadventures of its titular character. This four-panel sequence demonstrates the visual conventions that defined newspaper comics: recurring characters, sequential narrative across panels, speech balloons for dialogue, and expressive line work. The strip employs slapstick humor and situational gags typical of the Jazz Age comedy comics that filled newspaper funny pages. By the late 1920s, such strips had become essential daily features, establishing the narrative and visual vocabulary—panel borders, action flow, character consistency—that would directly inform the emerging comic book medium. These newspaper strips served as the primary training ground for artists and writers developing the sequential art form.