Smitty the Flying Office Boy

Walter Berndt's long-running newspaper strip, collected in a single Cupples & Leon volume in 1930, follows the airborne antics of a young office messenger who takes to the skies. Berndt, the sole creator behind the feature, blended slapstick humor with the everyday absurdities of a Depression-era workplace, giving readers a lighthearted escape. While its collected edition is brief, the strip itself ran for decades, cementing Berndt's reputation for cheerful, kinetic cartooning.