Telling Tommy

This Sunday strip follows a father instructing his son about the fur trade and North American economic history. The narrative unfolds across three panels, moving from domestic conversation to historical exposition to comedic payoff. The artist employs overlapping speech balloons and sequential panel construction—visual conventions that became standard in newspaper comics and the emerging comic book form. The strip demonstrates how the Sunday page format allowed for both educational storytelling and domestic humor, with recurring characters and expressive line work characteristic of 1920s newspaper cartooning.