Terry and Tacks

A Sunday newspaper comic strip by Joe Farren featuring two young characters in a domestic scenario titled "Good Night Nurse." The strip demonstrates the visual conventions established by early comic journalism: multiple tiers of panels, speech balloons advancing narrative and gags, and recurring child protagonists. Terry and Tacks employs slapstick humor centered on bedtime chaos—a caretaker attempts to settle the children for sleep while they resist through mischief and mishap. The strip's panel structure and sequential storytelling reflect the vocabulary developed by newspaper comics in the early twentieth century, when the Sunday funny pages became a primary vehicle for visual narrative before the emergence of comic books proper.