The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This newspaper comic strip narrates a baseball game through the perspective of a family dog named Snubs. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to chronicle the action: children playing with Snubs, the dog's enthusiastic involvement in retrieving the ball, a batter's swing, and base-running chaos. The artist uses simple line drawings and varied panel sizes to direct reader movement and emphasize key moments. Recurring characters—children, an adult "Boss," and Snubs—anchor the narrative. The strip demonstrates early comic-strip conventions: anthropomorphic speech from an animal narrator, episodic plot structure, and visual gags tied to physical comedy. Appearing in newspapers during the formative years of comics, such strips established the visual language and narrative techniques that defined the medium.