Krazy Kat — The Washington Times, December 28, 1919

This Sunday page from The Washington Times gathers five strips onto a single broadsheet: Krazy Kat (a narrow strip, upper-left), The Dingbat Family, Abie the Agent, Jerry on the Job, Polly and Her Pals, and Us Boys. Abie the Agent, Harry Hershfield's strip about a Jewish car salesman, deploys the broad ethnic caricature standard in 1919 comic pages — hooked nose, exaggerated gesture — reflecting the era's casual othering of immigrant communities. Together these strips document the Sunday newspaper page as the true cradle of the comic book: recurring characters, sequential panels, speech balloons, and visual pacing invented week by week by working cartoonists before anyone called the form a medium.