Krazy Kat — The Washington Times, November 30, 1919

This Sunday broadsheet page from The Washington Times shows George Herriman's Krazy Kat occupying its customary slim left-hand column — four vertical panels in which Krazy, paintbrush in paw, wrestles with artistic ambition while Ignatz Mouse lurks nearby. The strip's loose, sketchy linework and deadpan absurdism contrast sharply with the busier gag-mill strips sharing the page: The Dingbat Family, Abie the Agent (whose Jewish protagonist carries the broad ethnic caricature standard to the era's immigrant-humor genre), Jerry on the Job, Polly and Her Pals, and US Boys. Together these strips illustrate the Sunday newspaper page as the true incubator of sequential art — recurring characters, multi-panel flow, and speech balloons refined weekly into the visual grammar that would directly produce the comic book format by the 1930s.