Terry and Tacks

In this Sunday strip, Uncle Bill takes Terry for a ride in his jalopy, but mechanical troubles and comedic mishaps plague the journey home. Joe Farren's *Terry and Tacks* exemplifies the visual storytelling conventions that emerged from newspaper comics: sequential panel layout, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and recurring characters in episodic narratives. The strip's slapstick humor and automobile gags reflect both the era's fascination with motorcars and the physical comedy tradition of early cartooning. By the 1910s, newspaper comic sections had become laboratories for visual narrative, establishing the page layouts and character-driven humor that would define the medium for decades.