Spareribs and Gravy Brave a Wool-Nuff Storm

George McManus follows two characters—a thin man and a rotund figure in striped clothing—through a escalating snowstorm in this Sunday comic section strip. The narrative unfolds across eight panels with clear sequential flow: initial conversation, then progressive weather deterioration forcing the pair outdoors, where slipping and tumbling on snow dominate the physical comedy. Speech balloons carry dialogue and reactions; background cross-hatching intensifies to convey worsening conditions. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual vocabulary—panel borders, expressive figure work, and slapstick narrative—that shaped the medium's grammar. Published in a major West Coast daily, such strips provided mass entertainment while establishing recurring characters and formulaic gags that became the foundation for later comic books and the newspaper comics industry itself.