Those Kids Next Door—They Put Rocks in Nippy's River

A Sunday comic strip from the Call's color section featuring neighborhood children and a character named Nippy. The narrative unfolds across twelve panels in a 3×4 grid, following the kids' escalating mischief as they dam a river with rocks, then face consequences when their prank backfires. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and recurring characters in a domestic setting. By 1912, such Sunday supplements had become essential to newspaper circulation, establishing the visual language and narrative structures that would form the foundation of American comic books.