Little Jimmy—He Runs for a Turkey!

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows a young boy named Jimmy through a chase sequence spanning twenty-five sequential panels. The narrative unfolds across four tiers: Jimmy spots a turkey, pursues it through house and yard, creates domestic chaos with each pursuit attempt, and concludes with Jimmy catching the bird. The strip employs the visual vocabulary developed by newspaper comics in the 1890s—numbered panels, speech balloons, sight gags, and a recurring child protagonist. The artist uses exaggerated movement lines and slapstick action to propel readers through the sequence. By 1904, such Sunday comic supplements were standard newspaper features, establishing the panel-based narrative format that would define comic books and graphic storytelling for decades to come.