Oolo Tries to Satisfy His Hunger

This strip follows Oolo, a lanky ostrich character, through four sequential panels as he pursues food and chaos. The first panel shows Oolo eyeing a fruit vendor's cart; by the second, police arrive as fruit scatters. Panel three depicts Oolo raiding a shop marked "Black Stiff," while the final panel reveals the aftermath—a tally of damages (oranges, bananas, cart, shoes, nails) totaling thirty dollars, leaving Oolo's owner exasperated. The strip employs speech balloons and regular panel divisions typical of early newspaper comics, with Oolo as a recurring character whose animal nature drives slapstick consequence. This visual format—character-driven gags across multiple panels—became foundational to comic strip storytelling in the dailies and Sunday pages of the era.