The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip narrates a dog's misadventure at a pond through first-person diary entries paired with sequential illustrations. Snubs begins by playing with Inky the duck, then decides to cool off by jumping in—only to land on the duck and ride it across the water. When the frightened duck dives, Snubs nearly drowns before the apologetic duck returns to give him a second ride. The strip employs the visual grammar now standard to comics: panel divisions, speech balloons, and a recurring cast of animal characters. The humor relies on incongruity and physical slapstick rendered through energetic line work, characteristic of the newspaper comic strips that established the visual vocabulary foundational to modern comic books.