The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead

This Sunday comic strip follows Polly and her doll through nine sequential panels as Polly attempts to nap indoors, then ventures outside where she encounters blackberries and a playmate. The artist employs the visual vocabulary now standard to comics: rectangular panels with clear borders, speech balloons containing dialogue, and repeated character designs across scenes. The narrative unfolds through action and conversation, relying on readers' understanding of panel sequence to construct the story. This strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the early 1900s adapted techniques from both print illustration and stage narrative, creating a new medium that would influence the development of the comic book form throughout the twentieth century.