Here’s a good example of why I feel one-shots are important to the study of newspaper comics history. A fellow named Barnes (I. Barnes? T. Barnes?) produced a boatload of these little weekday strips, all one-shots, for NEA in 1912-13. He’s not represented in my book because he never settled down to producing a consistent series. He wasn’t a tremendous gag-writer, but he had a nice clean stylre and a good sense of staging.