Mickey's Goat Plays Ghost

This newspaper comic strip demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions that emerged in Sunday funnies. A sequence of six panels follows characters and a goat through escalating comic situations, using speech balloons and consistent character placement to guide readers through the narrative. The strip employs physical comedy and sight gags typical of early newspaper comics, which established the sequential art language later adopted by comic books. The recurring characters and panel-to-panel continuity reflect the formulaic approach that made newspaper strips profitable and popular, helping establish comics as a distinct medium separate from single-panel illustrations or text-heavy illustrations.