Foxy Grandpa

A six-panel Sunday comic strip from the St. Louis Republic featuring Foxy Grandpa, a recurring character in early newspaper comics. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early 1900s sequential art: distinct rectangular panels, speech balloons, and a narrative arc built across frames. Here, Grandpa outwits mischievous boys through cunning—a typical plot structure. The strip exemplifies how Sunday newspaper comics expanded beyond single editorial cartoons to serial storytelling with established characters, establishing narrative patterns and visual grammar that would define the medium as it developed into comic books.