Pinhead Pete

This single-panel strip features Pete, a rotund character with an oversized body and diminutive head, fishing while complaining about jury duty. The comic employs exaggerated proportions and physical comedy typical of early newspaper humor. Pinhead Pete ran as a recurring character strip in the 1910s, when newspapers serialized comics both as daily strips and Sunday features. The panel format with speech balloon—conventions established by pioneers like Richard Outcault—became the visual language of American comic strips. Simple line work and broad caricature define the period's approach to humor, which relied on recognizable character types and physical gags for reader appeal.