Danny Dreamer and Li'l Shiny Sally

This Sunday comic strip follows Danny Dreamer as he imagines himself umpiring a baseball game—a fantasy that spirals into slapstick mishaps. The six-panel layout stacks gags vertically, with speech balloons driving narrative and character voice. Artist uses cross-hatching for depth and employs sequential action across panels to show Danny's bumbling calls and collisions with players. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics: recurring child protagonist, accessible humor for family readers, and visual storytelling that relies on panel progression and gestural comedy rather than text. By 1908, such strips had become daily features in major papers, establishing the visual grammar—panels, balloons, character continuity—that would become foundational to comic books.