Leander Took Lulu to See the Moving Pictures

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring the recurring characters Leander and Lulu attending a film screening of The New Orleans Carnival. The strip uses eight sequential panels to show their reactions to the projected images—a visual device that mirrors the strip's own medium. Each panel pairs the couple's exaggerated expressions with circular insets displaying scenes from the moving picture. The artist employs heavy black linework and dramatic facial distortion typical of early 1900s comic art, where humor derived from caricature and physical comedy. This strip exemplifies the Sunday supplement format that emerged from the daily newspaper page, establishing the grammar of panel layout, dialogue balloons, and character continuity that became foundational to modern comics.