The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip follows Snubs, a mischievous dog, through a day of play with neighborhood children. The narrative unfolds across multiple panels using speech balloons and sequential imagery to track Snubs' antics: failing to catch a ball, retrieving it before the children, and creating comic chaos when he drops it from above a tree. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comic journalism—recurring characters, panel-by-panel action, and handwritten narration alongside dialogue. Such strips populated American newspapers' Sunday pages in the 1920s, establishing the formal language of comics: layout, timing, and character consistency that would become foundational to the medium's development into longer comic book narratives.