Sunday Comic Section — New York Herald

This Sunday newspaper page from the Herald showcases the visual innovations that shaped American comics. Multiple strips employ sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—the core grammar of the medium. The layout demonstrates how newspapers organized comic content across full pages, creating space for longer narratives and visual experimentation. By the 1920s, Sunday comics had become a major cultural force, driving newspaper circulation while establishing the formal techniques that would define the emerging comic book industry.