Krazy Kat — New-York Tribune, July 7, 1918

This Sunday page from George Herriman's Krazy Kat appears here not as an isolated strip but embedded in the Tribune's full theatrical-news layout — a reminder that comics earned their real estate alongside film columns and theater listings. Herriman's fluid panels, shifting Coconino County backgrounds, and the eternal triangle of Krazy, Ignatz Mouse, and Offissa Pupp had by 1918 already developed the visual grammar — expressive lettering, elastic panel borders, poetic dialect — that would define the form. Sunday newspaper pages like this one are the direct material ancestors of the comic book, which would not appear as a distinct object until the early 1930s.