Boys' and Girls' Page — *The Sun* (New York), November 26, 1911

A full Sunday children's page from The Sun (New York), this spread bundles several recurring features — puzzle columns, number tricks, nature lessons, a rope-knot primer, and short prose gags — under the banner headline Boys' and Girls' Page: 'This Is the Century of the Child.' Illustrated vignettes show a boy conjurer, stacked-digit puzzles, horse-and-cart comic sequences, and figure demonstrations inked in the crisp wood-engraving-inflected line style common to 1911 newspaper art. Sunday pages like this one were the direct seedbed of the comic book: syndicates packaged their color Sunday strips into newsprint pamphlets through the 1890s–1930s, teaching readers to follow sequential panels and speech balloons — a visual grammar that Outcault, McManus, and their peers had only recently standardized.