From the exhibition
The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
· June 10, 1924

This Sunday comic strip presents domestic humor through the perspective of a mischievous dog named Snubs. The narrative unfolds across six panels in a vertical arrangement, with each episode rendered in pen-and-ink line work typical of 1920s newspaper comics. Snubs encounters various misadventures—discovering an unattractive stray dog, attempting to beat a horse, encountering a sponge, and ultimately being given a bath by an exasperated owner. The strip employs speech balloons and hand-lettered captions to convey both Snubs's internal musings and the owner's frustrated commentary. This format exemplifies the anthropomorphic animal comics that populated Sunday newspapers, where recurring canine characters provided readers with physical comedy and relatable domestic situations told from an animal's point of view.
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