Today, let’s look at the ole ball and chain (sans the ball part):

“Welding the Links Together,” John Miller Baer, 28 January 1918.
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The Comics Journal had an interesting feature called the “swipes file” where they showed two comics or cartoons by different creators with very similar formatting. In that spirit, I am offering a series of mash-ups (or possibly swipes) on similar topics from some of my archival research.