The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

A domestic humor strip told from a dog's perspective, *The Diary of Snubs* employs the visual conventions that became standard in newspaper comics: sequential panels with hand-lettered speech and thought balloons, recurring animal characters, and observational gags about household life. The strip frames daily incidents—a new kitten's arrival, a dog's search for rest—through Snubs's bemused narration. This format exemplifies how early-twentieth-century comic strips adapted the panel structure of European sequential art and fine-tuned it for newspaper syndication, creating a hybrid form between illustration and prose that would prove foundational to modern comics.