Hannah Benbow is the comics and cartoons librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington – and she draws on that expertise in this essay looking into the early days of comics in the 'children's pages' of Aotearoa newspapers of the first half of the twentieth century. The beginning of locally produced comics for children in Aotearoa can be traced to the 1920s, when children’s pages became a mainstay of New Zealand newspapers. Comic books were just around the corner,