The Diary of Snubs, Our Dog—Hey! What's Going On Around Here?

This newspaper comic strip follows Snubs the dog as he narrates neighborhood events from a canine perspective. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that became standard in comics: sequential panels, speech balloons carrying narrative and dialogue, and a recurring cast of human and animal characters. The humor derives from Snubs' observations of everyday domestic life—a missing newspaper, encounters with other dogs, social visits from neighbors. By Rogers, the strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era relied on visual storytelling across multiple panels to develop gags and character relationships, establishing the fundamental grammar that would define the medium as it evolved into the comic book format.