The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip follows Snubs, a dog who narrates domestic scenes with wry observation. The narrative unfolds across four panels: Snubs encounters the Boss and friends huddled in excitement; the group gathers around what they've discovered; Snubs squeezes under the Boss to investigate, finding "nothing but a bunch of little marbles"; the dog dismisses their discovery with characteristic indifference. The artist employs sequential panels with speech balloons and internal monologue—visual conventions that newspapers standardized in the early 1900s. Recurring character strips like this one, pioneered by artists developing the grammar of comics, formed the foundation of the medium before comic books became a distinct format.