The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

This Sunday strip follows Snubs, a mischievous terrier, through a single day of domestic chaos. The narrative unfolds through six panels arranged in a grid, each captioned with the dog's first-person account of events: he trips a man with the telephone cord, interrupts his owner's business call, listens as Mrs. Peach nearly reveals his name to Mr. Jenkins, and ultimately receives a phone call asking after him by name. The strip employs the visual conventions established by early newspaper comics: sequential panels with borders, speech balloons, recurring characters, and a protagonist whose perspective drives the humor. By the 1920s, such Sunday pages had become a staple of American newspapers and directly influenced the development of the comic book form that would emerge in the following decade.