From the exhibition
The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
· 1923

This comic strip follows Snubs, a small dog, through his day-to-day observations rendered in first-person narration. The artist employs the visual conventions established by early newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged to guide the reader's eye, speech balloons containing dialogue and thoughts, and recurring characters anchored in a domestic setting. Snubs's activities—playing indoors, waiting at the window, eating scraps, performing tricks with yarn—are presented with gentle humor drawn from the dog's perspective. The strip exemplifies how newspapers of the 1920s serialized character-driven humor, developing ongoing relationships between readers and fictional animals that anticipated the comic book form emerging from these Sunday and daily installments.
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