Terry and Tacks

By Joe Farren, this Sunday strip follows two characters through a seaside adventure involving a beached submarine. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels in a grid layout, using speech balloons to advance plot and character interaction. Terry and Tacks discover military hardware and navigate comic mishaps tied to World War I themes. The strip exemplifies the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the 1910s—sequential panel arrangement, recurring characters, and integrated text-and-image storytelling. Sunday pages like this one formed the commercial and artistic foundation from which comic books would eventually emerge, demonstrating how newspapers distributed serialized narratives that trained readers in the grammar of sequential art.