Now, What D'ye Think of That?

A four-panel Sunday strip from the American Journal-Examiner featuring Manuello Angelotty, an inventor pitching an absurd lunar-powered scheme. The strip demonstrates early twentieth-century comic conventions: recurring character, sequential panels with speech balloons, visual gags built on technical misunderstanding, and typography that signals tone. The inventor's elaborate pseudo-scientific language contrasts with his listener's deadpan skepticism—a standard rhythm of early newspaper comics. Dense crosshatching and caricature dominate the visual style. Such Sunday pages and dailies were the direct precursors to the modern comic book, establishing the visual language—panel borders, word-image integration, character continuity—that shaped all sequential art to follow.