The Duluth Herald, November 17, 1922

This front page of a regional American newspaper from 1922 demonstrates how comics existed primarily within newspaper pages before the comic book industry emerged. The layout features multiple news stories, photographs, and advertisements typical of early twentieth-century journalism. While no comic strip appears prominently on this particular page, such pages were where sequential art with recurring characters developed—establishing visual conventions like panels, speech balloons, and narrative flow that would define comics. Newspaper Sunday supplements and daily strips provided the testing ground where artists refined the medium's language, creating characters and stories that eventually migrated into dedicated comic publications.