Pinhead Pete

A single-panel comic featuring Pete, a character defined by an oversized head and diminutive body. Pete holds a potted plant while addressing the reader directly about school board work—suggesting ways to keep nursing staff occupied through summer and into hospitals. The gag relies on Pete's physical grotesqueness and his deadpan suggestions of institutional labor. The strip demonstrates the early newspaper comic's dependence on recurring character types and direct address to readers. Hand-lettered dialogue and bold black-ink drawing define the visual style typical of the 1910s Sunday newspaper pages, where such single-panel and multi-panel strips first established the visual grammar—balloons, sequential panels, and stable character designs—that would become foundational to comic book storytelling.