The Teasers on Bobby! Won't You Ever Be Good?

This Sunday strip follows a gang of mischievous boys tormenting their victim Bobby across six sequential panels. The narrative unfolds through visual gags: a scheme hatched in panel one escalates into escalating harassment—swapping clothes, pulling hair, chasing Bobby through yards and past adults who either ignore or join the torment. The strip employs the visual grammar emerging from newspaper comics: rectangular panels with clear spatial progression, speech balloons containing dialogue and thought, recurring characters in exaggerated caricature style, and sequential action told through drawing rather than text alone. Sunday comics of this era served as testing grounds for the panel-based narrative format that would define comic strips and, eventually, comic books themselves.