Pinhead Pete

A single-panel comic featuring Pinhead Pete, a character of small stature seated among household objects. The strip employs speech balloons and text blocks to deliver its joke, announcing a gathering to discuss Andrew Carnegie's recent purchase of birdseed for a peace dove. The artist uses heavy inking and exaggerated proportions typical of early newspaper comics. By 1914, such single and multi-panel strips appeared daily and Sunday in newspapers nationwide, establishing visual conventions—recurring characters, sequential narrative, and dialogue balloons—that would become foundational to comic books and the medium itself.