Gabe

A Sunday strip by Frueh following the misadventures of Gabe, a young character navigating city life with characteristic slapstick humor. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels progressing left to right, speech balloons containing dialogue, and a central recurring character whose predicaments drive each episode's narrative. Here, Gabe's encounters with a horse-drawn cart and various street obstacles unfold across twelve panels, building comedic momentum through visual repetition and escalating chaos. Published in the Sunday Call section, Gabe exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era borrowed theatrical timing from vaudeville while developing the panel-based grammar that would define the medium for decades to come.