The Teasers: Another of Bobby's Little Jokes

This six-panel Sunday strip follows a recurring gag: a boy named Bobby plays pranks on adults, escalating from a servant-door joke through increasingly elaborate tricks involving a drunken man and a dummy. The strip uses the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the 1890s—sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring child protagonist whose antics drive the narrative. The style combines ink cross-hatching with bold linework typical of early Sunday pages. *The Teasers* exemplifies how newspaper comics developed as distinct from single-panel cartoons, using panel progression to unfold comedic timing and character motivation across a unified story space.