From the exhibition
The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
· 1924

This Sunday strip narrates a winter week through a dog's perspective, combining anthropomorphic humor with domestic scenes. Snubs reflects on sledding adventures with his owner—first as a cautious passenger, then eagerly riding every chance—before settling by the fire at day's end. The strip employs sequential panels with handwritten captions and speech balloons, establishing narrative continuity across six scenes. The loose, expressive linework and sight gags typify early 1920s newspaper comics, when Sunday pages experimented with animal protagonists and first-person narration. Strips like this helped define the visual vocabulary of comics: recurring characters, panel layout for pacing, and the blend of text and image that would become foundational to the medium.
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