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The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

· September 20, 1924

The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
This Sunday strip follows Snubs the dog through a day of domestic mischief told from the pet's perspective. The narrative flows across five panels using speech balloons and sequential illustration to show how Snubs disrupts the household—first pestering his owner at work, then enlisting a visiting dog named Sponge in destructive play, before both animals charm their way into joining the family's evening activities. The strip employs the visual conventions that shaped early comics: recurring characters, panel borders, hand-lettered narration, and anthropomorphized animals as protagonists. Such strips appeared in Sunday newspaper supplements during the 1920s, when the medium was establishing itself as a distinct form between illustration and prose.

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