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The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

· March 5, 1925

The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
A comic strip told from a dog's perspective, following Snubs through his daily misadventures around a store and neighborhood. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring animal protagonist, and gags built on situational humor and anthropomorphic observation. Snubs narrates his own story—sleeping on the job, encountering the store owner Mr. Jenkins, and getting locked out—rendering canine logic and mischief through human language. The loose pen line and simple composition typify the newspaper comic strip format that, alongside dailies and Sunday pages, established the foundational grammar of sequential art and character-driven narratives that would evolve into the comic book medium.

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