Mr. and Mrs.

This Sunday strip by Briggs depicts a domestic comedy in twelve panels, following a husband's escalating panic as his wife reads aloud from a gift list that grows increasingly elaborate—umbrellas, leather purses, traveling cases, jade beads, and luxury items—culminating in his frantic attempts to escape the room. The visual humor relies on physical comedy and facial expressions rendered in crisp ink line work, with sequential panel arrangement that guides readers through the husband's mounting anxiety. The strip exemplifies the newspaper comic format that emerged in the early twentieth century, where recurring characters in domestic situations provided daily entertainment and helped establish conventions of visual storytelling—speech balloons, expressive body language, and clear narrative progression across panels.