Their Only Child Makes Trouble for Papa!

A multi-panel Sunday comic from the Omaha Daily Bee depicting a father's exasperation with his mischievous child. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics in the early 1900s: sequential panels with speech balloons, clear narrative progression, and repeated characters. The humor derives from domestic conflict and a child's defiant behavior—stock material for the Sunday funnies. By 1914, such strips had become standard features in American newspapers, establishing the visual grammar and storytelling methods that would directly influence comic books' development in the following decades.