Ba-Ba

This Sunday comic strip follows a young child and dog through six panels of domestic mishap. A nap goes awry when the dog steals food; accusations fly at the dinner table; the child chases the blamed animal across the yard. The strip employs the visual conventions becoming standard in early newspaper comics: bordered rectangular panels, speech balloons for dialogue, recurring characters, and sequential narrative flowing left to right. By 1908, Sunday pages like this—printed in color on the newspaper's colored supplement—had become popular entertainment, establishing the visual grammar that would define comic strips and, later, comic books. The recurring child-and-pet formula provided reliable comedy for family audiences.