Telling Tommy

This Sunday strip follows a child's question about plant growth into a narrative about self-sufficiency and cultivation. The artist uses sequential panels and speech balloons to develop the story across six frames, moving from domestic conversation to a sustained flashback sequence explaining how a man learned to grow vegetables from seeds. The strip demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions—panel borders, word balloons, and recurring child character—that became standard in newspaper comics and shaped the emerging comic book medium. The detailed cross-hatching and pen work reflect the fine draftsmanship expected in Sunday newspaper color supplements during the 1920s.