The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This comic strip uses sequential panels to narrate a dog's perspective on a backyard encounter with another dog. Snubs spots a rival approaching through tall weeds, schemes to hide and surprise him, waits in ambush, and springs the attack—only to be mobbed by a group of children who intervene in the chaos. The strip employs the visual grammar essential to early comics: distinct panel divisions, expressive line drawings, handwritten dialogue in speech balloons, and a recurring animal protagonist. The humor derives from the gap between the dog's planned cunning and its chaotic outcome. Published during the 1920s newspaper era when comic strips were establishing the medium's formal language, this work exemplifies how sequential art could sustain personality-driven narratives across multiple frames.