The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This newspaper comic strip follows Snubs the dog through a single day's mishap. After returning home early, Snubs discovers a hen occupying his doghouse—leading to confrontation, barking, and eventual explanation from the hen that the property had been vacant for weeks. The strip employs the visual conventions established by early comics: sequential panels progressing left to right, speech balloons containing character dialogue, and recurring animal protagonist. Ink line work conveys motion and emotion through expressive marks. Comic strips of the 1920s served as the primary venue for narrative cartooning and established the visual grammar later adopted by comic books—panel layout, word-image integration, and serialized character development that became foundational to the medium.