Fuller Bunk

A four-panel Sunday strip by Meyer Marcus featuring two characters in military uniforms debating battlefield reports. The humor turns on absurdist claims—"one shot in a single shot," "that's nothing," "no, our guns shoot Teutons"—building to a final deflating punchline. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring characters, speech balloons advancing narrative, sequential panel progression creating comedic timing. Marcus employs cross-hatching and expressive line work typical of the era. Published during World War I, Fuller Bunk appeared in papers that established the visual and narrative forms later codified in comic books, demonstrating how newspaper strips pioneered the medium's essential grammar of panel layout, dialogue integration, and gag construction.