The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday comic strip tells a continuous narrative across six panels, following Snubs the dog through a series of everyday encounters. When the Boss stops at a grocery store, Mr. Jenkins proposes hiring Snubs as a working dog. The strip tracks the negotiation between Jenkins and the Boss, culminating in Snubs receiving a banana as payment for his "service." The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring characters, and a child-dog protagonist. By the 1920s, such strips had become the primary laboratory for visual storytelling techniques that would later define the comic book medium itself.