The Teaser's Bobby Versus Old Pum

This Sunday strip follows Bobby's escalating pranks on the household cat, Old Pum. The artist employs the visual grammar of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring child protagonist, and physical humor built across six frames. Bobby's schemes—hiding the cat, taunting it, and finally threatening violence—drive the narrative from setup through escalating chaos. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1900s developed the formal language that would define the medium: stable panel layouts, expressive cartooning, and humor rooted in character interaction. This format, born in Sunday supplements, established the templates for daily strips and later comic books.