From the exhibition
The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
· August 2, 1924

This Sunday strip narrates misadventures from a dog's perspective, using first-person speech balloons to convey Snubs's experience of a busy day: play with Jasper, failed attempts to catch a bird, a run from a barrel, and rescue of Inky before dinner. The strip employs sequential panels and visual gags typical of 1920s newspaper comics. By anthropomorphizing the protagonist and establishing a recurring cast of animal characters, the artist demonstrates the narrative techniques that transformed newspaper supplements into a distinct medium, where panel arrangement, dialogue, and character consistency created ongoing stories that readers followed daily.
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