Old Doc Yak Collects His Bill

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring Old Doc Yak, a goat character in striped pants who pursues payment from a debtor across multiple panels. The strip demonstrates early comic-strip conventions: recurring character, sequential panels showing cause and effect, speech balloons, and physical comedy. Doc Yak chases his customer through various obstacles—a streetcar, a ditch, traffic—in an escalating sequence of slapstick gags. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era derived visual language from earlier broadsheets and illustrated serials, combining word and image to tell self-contained stories. Artist Sid Smith's work appeared in Sunday pages nationwide, helping establish the comic strip as mass entertainment during the medium's formative years.