The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday page tells a simple narrative through Snubs the dog's eyes: watching a baseball game, joining the play, and ultimately disrupting it. Six panels arranged in a grid convey sequential action through drawings and handwritten captions. The strip employs the visual vocabulary developed by newspaper comics—recurring character, speech balloons rendered as text blocks, varied panel sizes, and sight gags. Published in the 1920s when Sunday funnies dominated American popular culture, such strips established the grammar later adopted by comic books: how to move readers through space and time, how to pace visual storytelling. The informal drawing style and child's-eye focus on mischief reflect the era's humor strips aimed at family audiences.