From the exhibition
The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog
· June 20, 1925

A Sunday comic strip told from a dog's perspective, narrating the day's domestic events through sequential panels. Snubs recounts disappointment at a cancelled outing, celebrates news of school closure, and stages an impromptu jig with the housemaid. The strip employs the visual conventions now standard to comics: panel divisions, speech balloons, and a recurring canine protagonist. Through expressive line work and anthropomorphized behavior, the artist creates humor from the gap between human and animal experience. Such animal-centered strips populated the newspaper funny pages of the 1920s, establishing character-driven narrative comedy in sequential art during the medium's foundational decade.
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