The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog

A Sunday newspaper strip told from a dog's perspective through first-person narration. Snubs recounts his day visiting a store window, being confined indoors, and observing passersby—each panel connected by sequential caption. The strip employs the visual vocabulary of early comics: multiple panels arranged vertically, speech balloons, anthropomorphized animal protagonist, and domestic humor. Snubs became a popular recurring character in newspapers during the 1920s, when animal-centered strips proliferated alongside human-focused narratives. The format exemplifies how newspaper comics developed the panel-based storytelling grammar that would become foundational to the medium, combining illustration with typography to create comedic timing across space rather than time.