Foxy Grandpa Escapes from the Lock-Up

This Sunday page follows Foxy Grandpa's escape from a bathhouse lockup through nine sequential panels. The elderly protagonist outwits two boys by using a pole to knock over the structure itself, then vanishes while they survey the wreckage. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: speech balloons, numbered panels with captions, recurring characters, and escalating physical comedy. Published in the Sunday supplements that preceded comic books, Foxy Grandpa ran from 1900 to 1918 and helped establish the medium's visual grammar—the panel-based narrative structure and character consistency that became foundational to American comics.