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

This newspaper comic strip presents a dog's perspective on everyday suburban life through first-person narrative and sequential panels. The strip follows Snubs through a series of incidents—finding a dropped package, meeting a boy at a gate, being mistaken for a stray—using both illustration and handwritten text to convey humor. The format exemplifies early-twentieth-century newspaper comics that blended animal characters with human situations, establishing visual conventions of panel progression, dialogue, and recurring protagonists that defined the emerging medium. Such strips populated Sunday supplements and daily papers, creating the narrative and visual foundations upon which the comic book industry would build.
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