The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This newspaper comic strip follows the misadventures of Snubs, a mischievous dog, told from the canine's perspective. The Sunday page demonstrates the visual vocabulary that defined early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring character, and narrative flow across multiple scenes. Here, Snubs and a friend named Sponge discover an old rope in the garage, leading to a series of escalating disasters—from water-filled bucket chaos to a scolding from the boss. The strip's anthropomorphic humor and domestic setting typified the newspaper comics that emerged in the 1920s, when Sunday pages and daily strips became America's primary form of sequential narrative art and comedy.