Grimes's Goat

A Sunday newspaper comic strip by Steinigans featuring a contest: readers who capture Grimes's goat and return it to a local store win a suit of clothes. The narrative unfolds across nine panels as a man pursues the mischievous animal through a crowded street, enduring kicks, collisions, and chaos. The strip employs sequential panel layout with speech balloons to advance the story, establishing visual conventions that would become fundamental to comic art. Recurring characters and situational humor typical of early-twentieth-century newspaper comics drive the action, while dynamic linework conveys motion and physical comedy essential to the medium's developing language.