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The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

· March 22, 1924

The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
This four-panel strip narrates a rainy day from a dog's perspective, establishing humor through animal point-of-view—a popular convention in early comics. The Boss and the dog return from errands soaked; the Boss must change clothes while Snubs needs only a shake. The final panel, showing Snubs alone and content, delivers the punchline: being a pup requires minimal effort. The strip exemplifies the visual language emerging in 1920s newspaper comics: sequential panels with captions and speech balloons, recurring domestic characters, and gag-driven narrative structure that would define the medium for decades.

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