Fuller Bunk

A grocer demonstrates his expertise on egg pricing to a customer across four panels. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a single gag, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and a recurring portly protagonist. The humor turns on Fuller's claim that eggs cost more now, then his admission that a year ago they cost even more—an absurdist deflation of expert authority. The artist uses cross-hatching and bold linework typical of 1920s Sunday page illustration, with exaggerated facial expressions and body language to reinforce the comedic timing. Daily strips like this one trained readers in visual narrative and established the formal vocabulary later adopted by comic books.