The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip presents a dog's first-person account of domestic misadventure, told across six panels with hand-lettered narration. Snubs, locked out during an afternoon walk, opens the kitchen door himself—a transgression that upsets neighbor Mrs. Simpson. When she confronts him, Snubs pretends innocence while secretly planning to learn door-closing technique. The strip employs the visual grammar established by early newspaper comics: recurring animal protagonist, speech balloons, sequential panels advancing a narrative arc, and anthropomorphic characterization. The sketchy ink line and expressive body language reflect the drawing style of 1920s dailies and Sunday pages, the medium where comic art vocabulary was invented before the first comic books appeared.