The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday newspaper strip narrates domestic life from a dog's perspective, a popular conceit in early comics. The six-panel layout uses speech balloons and sequential frames to convey Snubs's comic mishaps: investigating the new cook, getting pushed from the kitchen, being blamed for the cook's frustration. The ink-sketch style and relatable humor—a pet's innocent interference with household routines—typify the gentle family comedy that dominated newspaper comics. By the 1920s, recurring animal characters had become central to comic strips' appeal, establishing visual conventions of panel arrangement and captioning that would define the emerging medium for decades to come.