The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This comic strip narrates a day in the life of Snubs, a dog who becomes mascot to a neighborhood baseball team. The strip employs the standard visual grammar of newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive line work, and recurring character perspective. Snubs races to retrieve a ball left behind by his boss, only to discover it has been taken to the ball grounds. His frantic pursuit—interrupted by a good play from the boys—ends in triumph when he retrieves the ball and earns three cheers from the team. The strip demonstrates how early comics relied on domestic humor and animal protagonists to convey simple, wordless comedy through careful panel progression and visual storytelling.