The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday page presents a dog's account of his morning adventures, told through five panels with accompanying text. Snubs gallops through town, encounters sparrows and workmen, discovers a sunbathing friend named Sponge, and returns home hungry—a narrative structure common to newspaper comics of the 1920s. The strip employs speech balloons, sequential panel layout, and recurring animal characters that define the emerging visual language of comic strips. By this era, Sunday pages had become standard features in American newspapers, establishing the formal conventions—panel borders, expressive linework, and character-driven humor—that would anchor comic books when they emerged as a medium a decade later.