After stints at a number of papers in San Francisco and Chicago, including the Chicago Tribune, Pete Llanuza seems to have had a short stop-over at the Trib‘s sister paper, the New York Daily News. His only known cartoon series for them is the awkwardly titled Slang How It Looks, a small panel cartoon illustrating slang phrases taken literally. It only ran in the Sunday paper, and even then seems to have missed the occasional week. It ran from May 1 to July 10 1921.
If this was actually done while Llanuza was on staff at the Trib, it does not seem to have been used in the flagship paper.
An ancestor of Paul Coker's HORRIFYING CLICHES in MAD!
And way before that, Leet was doing the same thing, single column literal expressions, on the NEA syndicated ed page in ca. 1907. It's obviously a series, but if I recall right, they were just there, hanging out in the vicinity of Everett True or Mr. Skygack, without any title.