Grimes's Goat

A Sunday strip by Steinigans following a scheme to catch a troublemaking goat and return it for a reward to the Blue Front Clothing Store. The narrative unfolds across six panels: a shopkeeper posts the notice, characters set a trap with a crate and bait, the goat springs the mechanism, and chaos erupts as the contraption collapses around them. The strip employs sequential panel layout with speech balloons to advance plot and gags—visual conventions that were becoming standard in newspaper comics. Rural characters and slapstick mishaps were staples of early Sunday pages, which competed for readers through humor and elaborate mechanical gags.