Mutt and Jeff

This horizontal newspaper strip follows the comic misadventures of Beany (associated with the 'Mutt and Jeff' universe), spread across eight linked panels depicting an elaborately described fantasy home filled with affidavit wallpaper, goat-skin carpeting, and Arizona-Indian-made flooring. Each panel carries dense caption text beneath cartoonish line-art figures, blending visual gag with deadpan prose description—a hybrid of illustration and written comedy typical of early American newspaper strips. Bud Fisher's Mutt and Jeff, launched in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1907, became one of the first successful daily comic strips with recurring characters, helping establish the visual grammar—panel sequencing, character continuity, integrated text—that later anthology reprint collections formalized into the comic book as a distinct medium.