From the exhibition
The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
· November 29, 1924

This Sunday comic strip follows Snubs the dog through a domestic misadventure narrated in first-person voice. The narrative unfolds across four panels with sequential art: Snubs is accused of stealing Mr. Simpson's slippers, searches the house systematically, and is caught red-pawed—only to be redeemed when Mr. Simpson discovers his own mistake. The strip employs the visual grammar established by early newspaper comics: bordered panels, speech balloons, and a recurring animal protagonist observing human foibles. The humor derives from perspective reversal and visual continuity, hallmarks of the newspaper Sunday pages that became the formal foundation of comic books.
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