The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

A single-panel Sunday comic presented as the interior monologue of a terrier named Snubs. The strip uses sequential vignettes to tell a brief narrative: Snubs discovers his owners entertaining another dog at lunch, is initially offended, but gradually discovers the visitor's embarrassment. By day's end, Snubs has orchestrated a reconciliation through mischief, then boasts of his morning's heroics. The strip exemplifies the anthropomorphic humor and domestic scenarios common to 1920s newspaper comics, employing sight gags, speech balloons, and expressive line drawings. Animal protagonists narrating their own observations were a staple of early comic strips, allowing artists to comment on human behavior through a dog's ironic perspective.