Carrie

Wood Cowan's Carrie follows a young woman navigating urban life and social situations with wit and pragmatism. This Sunday strip employs the visual vocabulary now standard to comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters in domestic and public settings. The narrative unfolds across multiple scenes—hair salon, living room, bar—using overlapping dialogue and sight gags to drive humor. By the 1920s, newspaper comic strips had become the primary laboratory for visual storytelling, establishing conventions that would define the medium: panel borders to denote time and space, character expressions to convey emotion, and tight integration of text and image. Artists developed the grammar that would later structure comic books themselves.