The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday page tells a story entirely from a dog's perspective, narrated in first person through hand-lettered captions. Snubs, a stocky bulldog, joins neighborhood children at a vacant lot game, then attempts to join their jumping contest—overshooting the mark spectacularly. The strip demonstrates the narrative sophistication of 1920s newspaper comics: multiple panel arrangements, sequential action across a full page, and a consistent character returning week to week. The artist uses varied compositions and spot illustrations to guide readers through Snubs's mishap, a comic structure inherited from earlier newspaper strips that helped establish visual storytelling conventions adopted by comic books.