There Was No Dog—Only the Goats!

This Sunday strip employs the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: multiple tiers of panels, speech balloons, and a recurring cast of animal characters. A man's mistaken claim about a dog triggers escalating chaos as goats invade the scene, building the gag through sequential panels and exaggerated physical action. The strip's fluid panel progression and use of motion lines to convey movement exemplify how newspaper cartoonists of the 1900s established the grammar that would become foundational to comic books. Such strips appeared in Sunday supplements and dailies nationwide, reaching millions of readers and establishing comics as a distinct medium separate from editorial illustration.