The Cat Throw; or, How Plunktum Got Five Dollars

This six-panel Sunday comic follows a slapstick narrative: a wife instructs her husband to throw their cat out, leading to an elaborate scheme involving a theater, a crowd, and eventual chaos. The strip employs the visual vocabulary emerging in early 1900s newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and exaggerated figure drawing—establishing visual storytelling conventions that would define the medium. Published in the Sunday supplement, this comic represents the popular humor format that made newspapers destinations for visual entertainment and laid groundwork for the comic book industry to follow.