Life's Little Events: "The Senses—'Touch'"

James Montgomery Flagg's Life's Little Events appeared in newspapers as a single-panel comic strip, a popular format in the early 1900s. Here, a woman sits with a small child on her lap while reading—a domestic scene rendered with Flagg's characteristic pen line and cross-hatching. The strip's humor derives from observational comedy about everyday family life. Flagg was among the pioneering newspaper illustrators who established visual conventions that would define the medium: character consistency, domestic settings, and gestural comedy. By the 1910s, newspaper comics had become the primary venue for sequential art and character development, laying the foundation for the comic book format that would emerge in the 1930s.